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Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

Posted Feb 28, 2011 20:58 UTC (Mon) by miguelzinho (guest, #40535)
Parent article: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

I suppose distributing a tarball does not violate the GPL. If they decide to do the same with packages that would be the death sentence for CentOS.

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Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

Posted Feb 28, 2011 21:43 UTC (Mon) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link]

How exactly does presence of patches make it any harder to rebuild the code? If they did that, they would do no bigger harm to CentOS than they would do to their customers.

Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

Posted Mar 1, 2011 21:50 UTC (Tue) by daniel (guest, #3181) [Link]

<quote>I suppose distributing a tarball does not violate the GPL. If they decide to do the same with packages that would be the death sentence for CentOS.</quote>

More probably it would be a death sentence for Red Hat and a huge boost for Ubuntu.


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