Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (207 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

Am Montag, 7. März 2011, 20:49:59 schrieb Paul Elliott:
> On Monday, March 07, 2011 01:22:02 am Adrian Schröter wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 5. März 2011, 21:28:48 schrieb Paul Elliott:
> > > On Saturday, March 05, 2011 02:42:15 am Ralf Becker wrote:
> > > > So it needs someone to talk to RH about the devel packages ...
> > > >
> > > > Ralf
> > >
> > > Excuse me for asking what may be a dumb question, but why can't the devel
> > > packages be built from source which by the gpl must be available?
> >
> > To my knowledge (but I might be wrong), they are shipped only via RHN
> > which forbids redistribution.
>
> How does RH comply with GPL v2 section 3 or GPL v3 sections 5 and 6?

I have only rough ideas about this. And frankly, I don't want to spent no more
time on this anymore.

If anyone is interessted to clarify this feel free and try to get a statement
from RH about this which clarifies the situation.

Apart from that this is my last mail on this topic.

sorry
adrian

> I understand that you are in a delicate position working for a compeditor and 
> all but I am not under such restrictions and I am distrubed by this.
>
> I have not provided RHEL versions of my insignificant packages because of 
> lack 
> of devel packages.
>
> I am sure this must effect the more active packagers more profoundly.
>
> What is really happening?
>
>
> > However, I have not really checked this, but it is too risky for me
> > without finding out details (and I do not want to spend too much time
> > one this personally). I also have no access to RHN.
> >
> > bye
> > adrian


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