From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@soleranetworks.com>
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Red Hat ES4 GPL Issues?
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:19:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43FCFF82.70401@soleranetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602221519540.5009@twin.uoregon.edu>
Joel Jaeggli wrote:
That's the one. Thanks. I looked all over the place and could not find
it. I am concerned they are not shipping the Source Code with the Distro,
which is what they normally do.
Jeff
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
>>
>> I have been working on 2.6.9 kernels with red hat ES4 series
>> distributions (we purchased and have a license). I noticed that the
>> ES4 series kernels
>> which support NPTL libs no longer provide the source code with the
>> distribution (the installed kernels sources point to empty source
>> trees which
>> only contain makefiles). I have discovered we have to use our Red Hat
>> Network account in order to download the Source RPMs
>> (which are in fact provided).
>>
>> We got the distro via electronic fullfilment, so we did not get the
>> SRPMS CD iso images by default. This was a deviation from how Red Hat
>> normally distributes source code with their Linux distro.
>>
>> I am curious if Red Hat views requiring people subscribing to RHN as
>> a requirement to obtain source code is in conflict with the GPL. We
>> have no objection to downloading it since we have an account, but I
>> found it strange Red Hat, the leaders in Open Source and GPL
>> technology, now appear to block downloads of ES4 source code without
>> a subscription. Have I got it all wrong here, or is this borderline GPL
>> avoidance?
>>
>> I am unable to locate the Source Code on any public servers at Red Hat.
>
>
> is this the one you're looking for:
>
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/i386/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-5.EL.src.rpm
>
>
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/4WS/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.src.rpm
>
>
>> Jeff
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-22 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-23 0:11 Red Hat ES4 GPL Issues? Jeff V. Merkey
2006-02-22 23:21 ` Joel Jaeggli
2006-02-23 0:19 ` Jeff V. Merkey [this message]
2006-02-23 8:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 14:59 ` Chris Adams
2006-02-23 16:31 ` Nick Warne
2006-02-23 16:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 18:15 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-02-23 17:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 18:45 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-02-23 19:38 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-02-27 8:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-24 4:29 ` jdow
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