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John Lauro <[log in to unmask]>
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John Lauro <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 9 Jan 2014 20:29:47 -0500
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Chances are, that if it's going to be in git then there will likely be
full commit log and branches so it might make it extremely easy to pull what
RH did, what Centos did, etc...

Ok, maybe I am a bit over optimistic, but not all change is bad.  


----- Original Message -----
> I have been struggling with this myself tbh. If RH adds a line in a
> GPL
> program that says "Welcome to Red Hat", releases the binary as RHEL
> and
> then modifies it for CentOS to read "Welcome to CentOS" and only
> releases the source that says "Welcome to CentOS", then they are in
> technical violation of the GPL, I would say. (IANAL).

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