On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 03:45:37AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > An unrelated third party, whose stance doesn't matter for the issue.
How is Debian unrelated? They're risking violating the GPL, and putting themselves at legal risk. This isn't a matter of a "stance"; this is a matter of trying to determine if we're violating the GPL. > The only one who can sue is a copyright holder, and he'll first have > to sue the offender successfully over the alleged GPL violation. The > potentially affected people don't seem to be overly concerned about > that prospect. Uh, but Debian (and everyone else distributing Debian) *is* the offender, being the ones potentially violating the GPL by distributing GPL-licensed software without complete source. (Again, I'm not certain whether there's a GPL problem here or not, but the answer is certainly relevant to Debian.) -- Glenn Maynard