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Re: gEDA-user: Portable gEDA for Windows



   And this, friends, is why people just say fuckit and stop contributing.
   Enjoy your GPL circlejerk.

   On 19 Sep 2010 12:18, "DJ Delorie" <[1]dj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
   >
   >> 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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References

   1. mailto:dj@xxxxxxxxxxx
   2. mailto:geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   3. http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

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