Scott Silva wrote: > 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. > If you compile RH sources, you *will* get usable distro, just not binary compatible with RHEL. Ljubomir