On Apr 26, 2012, at 5:58 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > The problem is not GPL compatibility but whether sufficient freedoms are > granted to distribute and modify sources. That has a knockon impact on the > ability of 3rd parties to package and distribute the software, to patch it > without necessarily going via upstream, etc. etc., all of which affects the > degree to which others can easily use the language.
While distributing modified sources is certainly one way of dealing with changes not represented by the official distribution, I prefer distributing patches instead. It's easier to audit what's being changed, and updating to a new release tends to be easier.
