Matt Wilson wrote:
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:39:33PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
Are the FC5 tests covered by the GPL? If so, shouldn't there be a build
script or something very similar either in the distributed ISO or,
maybe, with the source packages?
Are you going to try to use the GPL to force a company to release the
process and associated technology used to build a collation? You
might as well be asking Red Hat to release beehive (the internal build
system). I doubt you'll be successful.
The choice of licence is the supplier's.
Compliance by the supplier with the licence is all users' right. When a
supplier chooses to licence a product to its users under the GPL, then
it's every user's right to expect that supplier to comply with the GPL,
just as we users are expected to comply should we redistribute.
beehive is a different matter and not one I expect to raise. I don't see
that a supplier has to release its tools (I expect that Microsoft could
releaase C code intended for Windows under the GPL without needing to
"give away" its C compiler), especially when alternatives exist, and the
existance of Centos, WBEL etc seems to be evidence of that.
