Re: [cobalt-developers] [RaQ4] SRPMS

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Being lazy and not checking the relevant licenses but this could
> well be in violation of various Open Source licenses. Certainly I'd
> expect the kernel pkg to fall under section 3(a) of the GPL.
> There doesn't seem to be a similar constraint in the Apache
> Software License.

I know Cobalt didn't use to release the Apache RPM as their version 
was compiled against the RSA BSAFE libraries, which Cobalt was not 
allowed to redistribute.  I'm not sure if that's still the case or 
not.

For what it's worth, a contact of mine still at Sun has been asking 
why the FTP server isn't being kept 'up to date' with PKG releases.  
No answers yet.  I think that there's just nobody left who 'owns' the 
process, and getting someone else to do it isn't as simple now as it 
was in the 'Cobalt Networks' days.

But I agree that I think it is a GPL violation, especially for the 
kernel.

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Bruce Timberlake

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