On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 08:08 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: > 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.)
I have not seen the cd myself, either, so I really can't say anything more on that, but it is possible. > 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. They are still not, I looked and saw no record what so ever about Fink, however it is possible that they have stopped using Fink at all. > 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. Kyle Moffett _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
