On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Lamar Owen <lo...@pari.edu> wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 02, 2011 12:53:29 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Try the other way around: build RHEL from their src rpms, try to run
>> the 3rd party binary... I thought you said that didn't work. If you
>> can't rebuild that source so it works, you might as well not use open
>> source.
>
> Ok, let me get this straight: you want open source on your OS but don't care
> about it for third party apps? If you have the third party source, you can
> rebuild it too. If you're using a closed source third party apps then doing
> the same thing with the OS shouldn't be a problem.
I don't care in general, but dislike hypocrisy. If you are going to
claim to be open source, it should work to rebuild.
> Nothing in the GPL requires source to be rebuildable so that closed source
> binary only apps can run unmodified on rebuilt binaries; kindof goes against
> the spirit of the GPL, no?
Errr, what? Working is a yes/no choice. If you can't rebuild so it
works, it doesn't work.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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