Re: Red Hat ES4 GPL Issues?

["Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 11:15 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
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>>Arjan van de Ven wrote:
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>>>>But anyway, what has this thread to do with the kernel?
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>>>since when does something need to be on-topic for Jeff Merkey to post to
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>>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. 
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>you forgot to download the cd images labeled "source".
>What's the problem???
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I did not download them, procuement here did and they did not grab the 
SRPMS iso's

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>>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.
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>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. 
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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.

:-)

Jeff