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Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog)Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog)Posted Nov 10, 2012 3:46 UTC (Sat) by jcorgan (subscriber, #47213)Parent article: Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog)
Anyone want to bet that the RedHat devs will start using this internally?
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Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog) Posted Nov 10, 2012 4:34 UTC (Sat) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698) [Link] Not at all likely. Red Hat already has individual patches in their internal repository. They only mash them together when they build the packages for release.
Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog) Posted Nov 11, 2012 0:29 UTC (Sun) by misc (subscriber, #73730) [Link]
In fact, people with subscription can also access them.
Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog) Posted Nov 12, 2012 9:07 UTC (Mon) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]
Unfortunately, subscribers can access the patches, but not the Git repository. It takes extra work to reconstruct the tree.
Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog) Posted Nov 19, 2012 15:22 UTC (Mon) by leromarinvit (guest, #56850) [Link]
Then why doesn't Oracle simply buy a Red Hat subscription and redistribute the patches? Surely they must be allowed to do that under the GPL.
Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog) Posted Nov 19, 2012 15:42 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Because as soon as they redistribute them, *poof* the RHEL subscription goes away, since its contract says they can't do that without losing the subscription.
Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog) Posted Nov 19, 2012 15:46 UTC (Mon) by leromarinvit (guest, #56850) [Link]
Doesn't that violate the GPL's "no additional restrictions" clause?
Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog) Posted Nov 19, 2012 16:11 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
There are no additional restrictions on patches themselves. Oracle is free to redistribute them under the GPL.
Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog) Posted Nov 19, 2012 16:12 UTC (Mon) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] Conceivably. To find out, you need to find someone who has the standing and funding to bring a lawsuit over the matter and an interest in doing so.
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