Re: gEDA-user: Portable gEDA for Windows

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Not quite; be sure that *anyone can get* the exact sources -- be
> sure to identify and link to the sources that you used,

GPL version 2 does not permit that.

    a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
    source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
    1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,

It is the *distributor's* responsibility to make those sources
available.  You're not allowed to rely on some third party web site to
do it for you, unless you have an agreement in place for that purpose.
Otherwise, the third party might update their sources and the ones
that match your binaries will no longer be available.

Also, the intent is that the sources must be *as available* as the
binaries.  Downloading a zip to Windows is a *lot* easier than
installing GIT and copying a release tag, so zip up the sources too.
Don't assume that "able to run unzip" implies "able to run git" for
example.


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