Re: [CentOS] [OT] RedHat's licence, CentOS rebuild

[Philip Wyett <philipwyett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 16:32 -0400, William Hooper wrote:
> Philip Wyett wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 15:38 -0400, Alain Reguera wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>
> >> I've been talking with some friends about the Redhat's SRPMs release
> >> issue. I've been reading the trademarks and some points of GPL. But get
> >> some confusion around the questions:
> >>
> >> Is redhat forced to release the sources of its product?
> >>
> >
> > RedHat choose to use and release GPL code and a requirement of that is
> > the making available of the source code.
> 
> Two things:
> 
> 1) Point me to the clause in the GPL that says you have to give the source
> away to someone you didn't give binaries to.
> 

Saying the "releasing GPL code" implied customers. Maybe I should have
been a little more specific.

> 2) There is a bunch of software in RHEL that isn't GPL.
> 

I never brought non GPL into this.

Regards

Phil



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