Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030344AbWBVXW7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:22:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030337AbWBVXW7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:22:59 -0500 Received: from master.soleranetworks.com ([67.137.28.188]:29838 "EHLO master.soleranetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030344AbWBVXW6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:22:58 -0500 Message-ID: <43FCFF82.70401@soleranetworks.com> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:19:14 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Jaeggli Cc: Linux kernel Subject: Re: Red Hat ES4 GPL Issues? References: <43FCFDC6.9090109@soleranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2244 Lines: 60 Joel Jaeggli wrote: That's the one. Thanks. I looked all over the place and could not find it. I am concerned they are not shipping the Source Code with the Distro, which is what they normally do. Jeff > On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > >> >> I have been working on 2.6.9 kernels with red hat ES4 series >> distributions (we purchased and have a license). I noticed that the >> ES4 series kernels >> which support NPTL libs no longer provide the source code with the >> distribution (the installed kernels sources point to empty source >> trees which >> only contain makefiles). I have discovered we have to use our Red Hat >> Network account in order to download the Source RPMs >> (which are in fact provided). >> >> We got the distro via electronic fullfilment, so we did not get the >> SRPMS CD iso images by default. This was a deviation from how Red Hat >> normally distributes source code with their Linux distro. >> >> I am curious if Red Hat views requiring people subscribing to RHN as >> a requirement to obtain source code is in conflict with the GPL. We >> have no objection to downloading it since we have an account, but I >> found it strange Red Hat, the leaders in Open Source and GPL >> technology, now appear to block downloads of ES4 source code without >> a subscription. Have I got it all wrong here, or is this borderline GPL >> avoidance? >> >> I am unable to locate the Source Code on any public servers at Red Hat. > > > is this the one you're looking for: > > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/i386/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-5.EL.src.rpm > > > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/4WS/en/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.src.rpm > > >> Jeff >> >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe >> linux-kernel" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >> > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/