on 4/7/2011 2:28 PM Les Mikesell spake the following: > On 4/7/2011 3:55 PM, R P Herrold wrote: >> On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >>> rebuilding RHEL src rpms under RHEL, it should be made >>> public and either fixed or acknowleged as the intended >>> outcome. >> >> Off topic here as to what RHEL and its vendor should or should >> not do, Les. > > OK, I'll rephrase. What they do do should be made public. > >> And 'self-hosting' has NEVER been a goal of the upstream's >> full product line [and indeed cannot be, as parts of it >> include binary blobs for which sources are not released] > > And yet, there are probably people who believe that RH releases sources > that can be rebuilt to usable binaries and make decisions based on that. > The GPL says they must release source. It doesn't say they have to also release any magic spells they use to compile it.