Re: redhat RPM & bin license.

[Bob McElrath <mcelrath isp nwu edu>]

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Uncle George wrote:

> Bec of the limited space & bandwidth, I was thinking of providing a
> redhat rpm for the various alpha platforms ( 21064, 21164, and the
> 21164a  processors ). I'd like to create the rpm, and submit the rpm to
> redhat for their inclusion into the jewel set distribution.
> Am i violating the bin license, by doing so. I suppose if someone else
> were to package the bins, and submitted the RPM to redhat they would be
> safe, and unencumbered by the license.

An RPM of...what?  What are you talking about?  AFAIK there are no
restrictions on using the RPM mechanism to distribute binaries.

-- Bob

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