On Jan 19, 2004, Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 16:49, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: >> And finally, have you considered that Red Hat could cease providing public >> SRPMS or even public source for RHEL at any time if they feel that their >> income stream is threatened by WBEL or other alternatives? Then how are you >> going to get updates? Are they going to patch, test, QA, and replicate all >> that software themselves? > *cof* For most software in RHEL I don't think they could really do that > legally (GPL and Lesser GPL software) Red Hat is not required to put the SRPMS up for anonymous ftp, as you know; the requirement of the licenses you mention is that the sources be provided to those who get the binaries. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Happy GNU Year! oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer
