Dan Polansky wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
>     Dan, for reference, there were recently articles that distros derivating
>     their work from Debian were asked by the FSF to provide the source code
>     even though they didn't do any changes to the packages created by
>     Debian. Reason was that Debian might die and the source code wouldn't be
>     available anymore. Our situation is *possibly* comparable.
> 
> 
> Do you have links to these articles? SimplyHTML cannot disappear as long 
> as it is on SourceForge. And if SourceForge would disappear, so would 
> FreeMind. So this is most probably practically irrelevant argument.
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4218186268.html
http://software.newsforge.com/software/06/06/23/1728205.shtml
And I do agree that it's practically irrelevant, but legally it might 
not be.

> 
> If indeed GNU GPL would require us to include in our CVS all the source 
> code of all the libraries that we use, we would have in the extreme to 
> include the source code of JavaRE in our CVS ;).
No, because we don't distribute the JavaRE binaries.

But, as said, let's go on, we'll see if someone knocks on our door.

Eric

> 
> Regards,
> Dan


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