[clue-tech] CentOS

[Jed S. Baer]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:11:25 -0400
Angelo Bertolli wrote:

> Therefore, they may set it up so that they only provide source code to 
> those who have bought a copy.

The GPL:

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3.  You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under
Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1
and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:

    a)  Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2
above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, 

    b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years,
to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically
performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the
corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1
and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, 

    c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to
distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only
for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in
object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with
Subsection b above.) 

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By process of elimination, it would appear to me that RedHat is in class
"b". Note the "any third party". Unless RHEL (or Application Server -- I
don't keep track of this stuff) ships with the complete source. Does it?

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