Re: Red Hat ES4 GPL Issues?

[Joel Jaeggli]

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
>
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