question about RedHat/Fedora and the GPL

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Mon Jun 6 06:49:28 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 16:26 +1200, condition terminal wrote:
> OK, firstly, I am sorry if I am miss understanding the text of the GPL. 
> 
> The part I am questioning is this: 
> 
> ---QUOTE---
> complete source code means all the source code for all modules it
> contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the
> scripts used to control compilation and installation of the
> executable.
> --END--QUOTE---
> 
> should this not mean that the likes of "beehive" be distributed?

> Am I barking up the wrong tree and completely missing the point? 

yes. All the scripts needed to control the compilation and installation
of the executable is in the src.rpm perfectly fine.


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