From: Anders Johansson (ajohansson_at_novell.com)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 19:50:18 CET
From: Anders Johansson <ajohansson@novell.com> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:50:18 +0100 Message-Id: <200603141950.18199.ajohansson@novell.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES License
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 19:41, Michael T. Halligan wrote:
> Anders,
>
> You are incorrect in this. This is the specific reason that redhat
> provides, free to the world, source rpms of RHEL. If
> I modify gpl'd code and distribute binaries, I am legally bound to
> provide my source modifications to whomever asks.
I'm sorry, I don't mean any offense, but you are wrong. The sole requirement
is that the sources are provided to the recipient of the binaries. This is
one of the oldest debates in the open source world.
I suggest you re-read the GPL, and feel free to ask the Free Software
Foundation for help in understanding it
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