Kuhn: Thoughts On GPL Compliance of Red Hat's Linux Distribution

Kuhn: Thoughts On GPL Compliance of Red Hat's Linux Distribution

Posted Mar 12, 2011 12:27 UTC (Sat) by foom (subscriber, #14868)
In reply to: Kuhn: Thoughts On GPL Compliance of Red Hat's Linux Distribution by adobriyan
Parent article: Kuhn: Thoughts On GPL Compliance of Red Hat's Linux Distribution

If it was really the case that the change doesn't affect anyone, RedHat wouldn't have made it.

Or alternatively, if RedHat considers everyone else clueless and unable to understand patches, they really wouldn't have made this change, since all those clueless people were just going to waste their time building broken kernels by applying RH patches directly, without testing or understanding. And that just makes RH look better!

No, clearly RH understands that this does affect some clueful people, a particular subset of which they really want to make things difficult for...

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