Let's back up for just a moment here. If I sell a CD with GPL'd software, I am only required to provide the source to my customers. So I can meet the requirement of the GPL by putting the source on the CD. (Have you seen the CD's in question? I haven't, so maybe they are doing this.)
Secondly, because fink is itself GPL'd, others are free to use our work. That's sort of the point of the GPL, after all. The issue with these folks in the past was whether they were using our work without giving credit. They did add a comment on their website, but it wasn't enough to satisfy reasonable people, IMHO. But that is in the past, and it is quite possible that they are behaving better now. The real solution, it seems to me, is a fink CD. We could put the installer, and the complete binary distribution (including sourcefiles as always) on a CD, and we could even throw in the source for all unstable packages that have open source licenses. (Well, to be honest, I have doubts that all of the above would fit on a single CD!) Creating the content for such a CD is easy, maybe we could do it after the 0.4.0 release. Producing and marketing the CD, though, is something which I don't think any of the fink developers have time for. -- Dave _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
