Re: Centos 6 Update?

[Scott Silva <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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