Hello,

śr., 26 lut 2020 o 19:14 Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> napisał(a):

> Hi!
>
> I (or more lintian from Debian) just noticed there is a pre-compiled
> UPX-compressed binary GNU tar 1.29 in
> "bacula/src/plugins/fd/docker/baculatar" without sources.
>
> I don't think this is a wise idea, because now the sources as they are
> are not redistributable (as far as my understanding of the GPL goes)


In my opinion you are wrong. I can distribute binary GPL without sources
when I give you a possibility to download the source code. In this case
there is no license violation.
To confirm my words you can check ANY binary package deb or rpm which does
not include a bit of source code and you have to download a source code
separately.


> and
> because the binary is AMD64-only it will be useless for any other
> architecture where Docker is available.
>

If it is included on the repository than it was added here by mistake and
could be freely removed.


>
> Because there is a script (createimage.sh) available which will build a
> static tar on demand, I suggest removing the precompiled binary from the
> sources, avoiding any problems resulting from its inclusion.
>
>
The binary distribution of the source code does not generate any problems
when you include information about source code location. The tar binary
included by mistake in the repository is built online from sources
available on github, so we fulfill source code distribution requirements.

best regards
-- 
Radosław Korzeniewski
rados...@korzeniewski.net
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