Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel(a)gmail.com> writes:
It's certainly a direct violation of the intent of the GPL
licensed
tools that form so much of the base of Fedora's build environment.
The GPL3 no longer requires us to provide tools used to compile such
objects, as long as such tools are general-purpose and used unmodified:
"The “Corresponding Source” for a work in object code form means all
the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable
work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts
to control those activities. However, it does not include the work's
System Libraries, or general-purpose tools or generally available
free programs which are used unmodified in performing those
activities but which are not part of the work. For example,
Corresponding Source includes interface definition files associated
with source files for the work, and the source code for shared
libraries and dynamically linked subprograms that the work is
specifically designed to require, such as by intimate data
communication or control flow between those subprograms and other
parts of the work."
We can reject such binaries based on Fedora's philosophy, but we cannot
reject them as violating the GPL.