On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Yasha Karant wrote:
On 06/11/2012 08:39 AM, Connie Sieh wrote:
Policy on Scientific Linux(SL) Life Cycle
We plan on following the TUV Life Cycle. Currently that is a total of
10 years. See http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/
We expect to continue releasing Scientific Linux(SL) just
as we have in the past. *
* Provided TUV continues to make the source rpms publicly available
-Connie Sieh
-Pat Riehecky
Am I missing something here? I thought under the GPL as well as various
other open source licenses, TUV was required to make available the full
source from which the full non-encumbered distro could be built
(non-encumbered means excluding any proprietary drivers, etc., that
"taint the kernel"). TUV can split things up in such a way as to make
it very difficult to build the system from source, but not impossible
(no components eliminated, no documentation eliminated , e.g., source
without "readme" files). The only thing that must be eliminated are
the TUV logos and trademarks, but the internal TUV authorship credit on
all of source files must be retained.
If I am missing something, is there a discussion link (URL) of the
issues, preferably not in legalese?
Yasha Karant
It was said to be complete.
-Connie Sieh
