The Rails Wheels licencing system and Open Source

Mark James mrj at advancedcontrols.com.au
Wed Sep 3 10:36:44 UTC 2008


Michael Tiemann wrote:
> Source are fully and freely available, and include such rights as are 
> needed to create completely free binaries (CentOS) or competing 
> supported binaries (Oracle).  The initial subscription must be purchased 
> only if you want certified binaries from Red Hat, and those binaries are 
> distributed with source, but they are not provided in lieu of source.

Thanks Michael. Do those SRPMS, available somewhere on the Red Hat site,
build to a complete and branded Red Hat system that would normally
require a subscription? And how practical is it for a user to perform
that build?

Mark



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