Re: Red Hat ES4 GPL Issues?

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 11:15 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> >>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 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.