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bluecat22
2997 days ago
Most people won't but somebody else will make the builds and then offer those builds. Example: CentOS
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dogma1138
2997 days ago
Cant you have a license that forbids distributing binaries?
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bluecat22
2997 days ago
See that's why I see CentOS as not necessarily a very good thing. It dents into the idea of making money with open source product.
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vetinari
2997 days ago
Though in case of CentOS it probably helps more than it hurts. For RHEL, the product being sold and bought is not the bits, but the support.
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mon1key
2997 days ago
This won't work for consumer facing desktop apps though.
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