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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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