[CentOS] Re: Re: Centos policy?

Fri May 11 03:32:31 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Rex Dieter wrote:
> Russ wrote:
> 
>> Does the GPL say that the source must be provided to your customers or
>> does it need to be freely available? 
> 
> Read the GPL.  :)  

Yes, you probably have about a thousand instances of the COPYING file on 
your disk...

> Oh, ok (spoiler alert)...  only to those to which they distribute binaries
> (ie, customers).  That detail is lost on many folks.

You also can't restrict them from redistributing either the binaries or 
the source after they have received their copies.  You must include 
source for all parts of the 'work as a whole' of anything that contains 
any GPL'd code.  Note that not CentOS programs are under the GPL, and it 
does not apply to separate application programs you write that are 
simply included along with the OS (unless they include GPL'd components).

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com