From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Zsh bugfixes released by RedHat
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 23:10:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a944dlq9.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <141106124717.ZM16843@torch.brasslantern.com> (Bart Schaefer's message of "Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:47:17 -0800")
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> writes:
> On Nov 6, 9:15pm, Axel Beckert wrote:
> }
> } > Technically they are supposed to offer the patch to us, although zsh's
> } > license is not as clingy that way as the GNU license for example.
> }
> } JFTR: The GNU General Public License does not require that any
> } modification made to software under the GNU GPL is sent back to the
> } _author_ of the software.
>
> Right, I was being too non-specific when I used the word "us". I meant
> they should offer the patch to anyone to whom they offer the binary.
> Since I'm getting the errata notice about the new binary, technically
> I should have access to the patch. Which I do, it's just a PITA to
> download the entire .src.rpm and extract it.
>
> But they're also not required to make it *easy* to get the patch ...
>
> So thank you to the folks who did that for me, and hopefully RedHat
> will see the change I just pushed and pick that up instead.
Note that I took it from the CentOS repositories, because RedHat wont
distribute their patched zsh to me (neither in source nor binary form)!
(Yeah, I know, CentOS is a part of RedHat now. Still.)
(I actually expected having to diff the source tree against a zsh
release, just like they used to with their Kernel tree.)
--
Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-06 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-06 15:56 Bart Schaefer
2014-11-06 16:58 ` Jérémie Roquet
2014-11-06 17:04 ` Christian Neukirchen
2014-11-06 18:40 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-06 17:13 ` Ray Andrews
2014-11-06 16:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-06 20:15 ` Axel Beckert
2014-11-06 20:47 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-06 22:10 ` Christian Neukirchen [this message]
2014-11-06 22:21 ` Jérémie Roquet
2014-11-07 15:06 ` Christian Neukirchen
2014-11-06 22:10 ` Axel Beckert
2014-11-06 21:57 ` Ray Andrews
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