> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:57 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: Corinna Vinschen
> Subject: Re: strange source packaging?
>
>
> Robert Collins wrote:
>
>
> > And the GPL requires us to document the changes made - if
> we have the
> > patch pre-applied, with no reverse patch, then this isn't the case.
> > Asking folk to go elsewhere to get that 'pristine' source puts the
> > onus on the upstream to make that available, which we can't
> do - for
> > the same reason that folk that ship cygwin1.dll need to
> host their own
> > copy of the source.
>
>
> At the risk of wading into yet another GPL argument -- I
> don't think the
> GPL requires documentation of the entire provenance of
> changes relative
> to some external source; it's just the polite thing to do.
Section 2a is pretty clear.
Rob
