On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 17:16 -0400, William Hooper wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 16:32 -0400, William Hooper wrote: > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > >> 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. > > > > > > > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatDoesWrittenOfferValid > > "If you commercially distribute binaries not accompanied with source code..." > > All someone has to do is distribute binaries and source code together to > their customers and they don't need to provide the source code to > everyone. RHN already provides RPMs and SRPMS. A publicly accessible FTP > site is not required. > I didn't say that they had to provide a publicly available FTP site (actually, I did say just the opposite in my original reply ... they indeed do not have to provide that) ... however, since they distribute Binary ISOs and Source ISOs separately (ie, as separate ISOs) they would need to provide customers Source ISOs (in the future) if they legally obtained Binary packages. A customer is anyone who legally obtains the Binary ISO .. and it is any legally obtained version. RedHat does now, and always has meet all these requirements.
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