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 [...]
*cof* For most software in RHEL I don't think they could really do that legally (GPL and Lesser GPL software)
Read the GPL, Rui. Red Hat is ONLY required to provide the source to those people to whom they provide binaries. That means they would be acting legally by only offering source to RHEL subscriptors. And if they did choose to create publicly-available source code, they could also just release a whole bunch of tarballs and leave others to struggle with creating SRPMS and RPMS.
Note that Red Hat has repeatedly suggested (as Jason mentioned) that they will continue to provide SRPMS via anonymous FTP. But you should acknowledge that they do so out of generosity, not obligation. Thank them and don't take it for granted... all human beings tend to become grumpy if unappreciated.
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
