Re: Red Hat ES4 GPL Issues?

[Jeff V. Merkey]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 11:15 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>  
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> > Arjan van de Ven wrote:
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> >    
> >
> > > > But anyway, what has this thread to do with the kernel?
> > > >   
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > since when does something need to be on-topic for Jeff Merkey to post to
> > > lkml ? ;-)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > I got the RPM's and located them from an earlier responder to the post.  
> > It was just disturbing
> > that RedHat does ont include the sources when you install from binary -- 
> > which they always have
> > before. 
> >
> >    
>
> you forgot to download the cd images labeled "source".
> What's the problem???
>  
I did not download them, procuement here did and they did not grab the 
SRPMS iso's

>  
>
> > I am glad Red Hat is still distributing the code, but I am disappointed 
> > they are no longer
> > including it in the base RPM install.
> >    
>
> oh you don't mean the src.rpm but the full kernel source code installed?
> That's explained in the release notes; it's 2 shell commands to create
> it, and it's in a way silly to make an exception for the kernel here
> compared to all other software. And CD real estate on the binary cd's is
> scarse as well. 
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>  
I know but this deviates from how they did it in the past.  No worry, 
sooner or later Linux will get so
large in these distros, you will need a DVD to hold all of it, so I can 
understand if space was at a premium
on those CD iso images.

:-)

Jeff

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