Re: Red Hat ES4 GPL Issues?

["jdow" <jdow@earthlink.net>]

From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>

> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 11:15 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > >
> > >    
> > >
> > > > > But anyway, what has this thread to do with the kernel?
> > > > >   
> > > > >
> > > > >        
> > > > since when does something need to be on-topic for Jeff Merkey to post to
> > > > lkml ? ;-)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >      
> > > I got the RPM's and located them from an earlier responder to the post.  
> > > It was just disturbing
> > > that RedHat does ont include the sources when you install from binary -- 
> > > which they always have
> > > before. 
> > >
> > >    
> >
> > you forgot to download the cd images labeled "source".
> > What's the problem???
> >  
> I did not download them, procuement here did and they did not grab the 
> SRPMS iso's

So they screwed up. That is not RedHat's fault. This is the way they
have always made a distribution since source and binary outgrew a single
disk. Binary's on one disk and Sources on another. Eventually it became
binaries on several disks and sources on several other disks.

> > > I am glad Red Hat is still distributing the code, but I am disappointed 
> > > they are no longer
> > > including it in the base RPM install.
> > >    
> >
> > oh you don't mean the src.rpm but the full kernel source code installed?
> > That's explained in the release notes; it's 2 shell commands to create
> > it, and it's in a way silly to make an exception for the kernel here
> > compared to all other software. And CD real estate on the binary cd's is
> > scarse as well. 
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> I know but this deviates from how they did it in the past.  No worry, 
> sooner or later Linux will get so
> large in these distros, you will need a DVD to hold all of it, so I can 
> understand if space was at a premium
> on those CD iso images.

When's the last time you did a RedHat install?

{^_^}   Joanne
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