On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Lamar Owen wrote:
On 06/20/2014 03:55 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
It may have become a legal question now that the SRPMs are no longer
available from ftp.redhat.com. That in itself is an unwelcome change.
It is an unfortunate change, yes, but I prefer to give Red Hat the benefit of
the doubt as far as motivations go, since they could close it up completely
like SuSE has with SLES and SLED (OpenSuSE is SuSE's Fedora, so it doesn't
count). And SuSE is completely within its rights under GPL to do how they
are doing; this is not a jab against SuSE, since SuSE has also done and is
doing a lot of great work for open source. (Of course, since I haven't
looked for publicly posted source for SLES in a while, they may have posted
it since I last looked and I just don't know about it.)
I am glad you agree that Red Hat now moving closer to what SuSE is doing
is unfortunate and not welcomed by the community(*).
(*) Where community in my definition excludes people on Red Hat's payroll ;-)
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