On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Jamie Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > > If they're not released to the public, they are almost guaranteed to be > encumbered in a manner similar to the binary RPMs, which would make that > illegal. > I haven't looked for changes to the EULA with RHEL7 yet, but I would imagine > they took care of it.
The reason to release them at all is to comply with the GPL. Such encumbrances would thwart that compliance. The only problem with my suggestion, I think, is the one John Lauro has identified: the latency for obtaining updates. Just how long can one take responding to a request for source before being in violation of the GPL, I wonder? Of course, Red Hat could make everything simple just by tagging the git repository for each release and update. I estimate the probability of that event as zero. - Pat
