Re: question about RedHat/Fedora and the GPL

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Um.. your missing the point. 

On 6/7/05, Curtis Doty <Curtis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> condition terminal wrote:
> 
> >On 6/6/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 16:26 +1200, condition terminal wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>OK, firstly, I am sorry if I am miss understanding the text of the GPL.
> >>>
> >>>The part I am questioning is this:
> >>>
> >>>---QUOTE---
> >>>complete source code means all the source code for all modules it
> >>>contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the
> >>>scripts used to control compilation and installation of the
> >>>executable.
> >>>--END--QUOTE---
> >>>
> >>>should this not mean that the likes of "beehive" be distributed?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Am I barking up the wrong tree and completely missing the point?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>yes. All the scripts needed to control the compilation and installation
> >>of the executable is in the src.rpm perfectly fine.
> >>
> >>
> >OK then.. so how are the files and scripts used to control the
> >building of the rpms outside the specs excluded from the conditions of
> >the GPL?
> >
> >
> Maybe you have an idea for an open-source build system you would like to
> start here?
> 
> http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraBounties
> 
> ../C
>

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