I know you are the only one who still works on FinkCommander, so I don't want to annoy you more than necessary ;-) You know that I was the one who always deplored the hostility with which the FinkCommander project and sburrius himself were "welcomed" by certain Fink developers, and I still find it somewhat shameful how the Fink community profits from FinkCommander's existence, but isn't willing to spend the necessary effort to support it. So I fully appreciate your work on FC. However...
Juan Courcoul wrote:
I wholeheartedly agree with Martin. Ever since I began enjoying Fink, I've always opted for source distribution but I sure do not want to have to wrangle with CVS to get it. Heck, the day Fink came out with rsync selfupdating was a happy day indeed ! If there were to be no other option but CVS, I'd rather stay with 0.5.1 or forget Fink Commander altogether and go back to command line.
In this case, even the cvs repository doesn't seem to be up to date. The cvs sources build version 0.5.2. And If you want to check out the sources for 0.5.2, you are lost, too: There is no 0.5.2 tag. So I honestly don't know from what sources this version of FinkCommander was built. I am pretty sure there used to be a 0.5.2 tarball on sourceforge for a while, but this seems to have disappeared, too.
On Apr 19, 2004, at 6:28 PM, Ben Hines wrote:
Why?
Well, courtesy for one thing. Then there is this little thing called GPL. I don't want to insist on legal principles, I don't care about these as principles, but I would hope that you adhere to the spirit of open source. If FinkCommander is still under the GPL, you are obliged to show the precise sources(*) from which the dmg was built. It is a bad enough example given by this gimp-app guy who openly ignores the GPL, apparently with the endorsement of gimp.org; the Fink developers themselves shouldn't start down this road, too. There are many reasons for insisting on the principles of open source, I don't want to start listing them, the FSF does this much better. Only one: If you ever want anyone else help to debug FC (as I have done once or twice in the past), you need to make sure they have the sources.
(*) Here is an excerpt from the LICENSE.txt found in FinkCommander cvs:
For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable.
-- Martin
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