On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:51:36PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de> wrote:
> The trick would be RH to freely release RHEL instead of forcing others
> to recompile packages, such these guys can contribute to EPEL instead
> of having to waste their time and resources on rebuilding.
No disagreement here.
They don't even need to release "RHEL", but only the packages except
for the trademark packages (images etc.), so that Fedora can simply
create a distro out of it.
<I_am_not_a_lawyer>
Havig said that, in the past I have heard RH people saying that they
don't understand why people are rebuilding the binaries (except
trademark packages etc. of course), as they (the single packages,
not RHEL as a "composition") may be distributed freely.
Either this is not true, or nobody has ever done the work to find
this out in detail.
</I_am_not_a_lawyer>
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