* Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> [2020-10-29 07:55]: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > Nowadays, distributions don't ship copies of the tarballs; the > > mainstream > > practice is for build scripts to download tarballs from the original > > upstream locations, or else mirrors, and then cache them locally. > > Unless they are careful, they can violate the GPL that way.
I am not getting your statement. When source is modifiedm, enhanced, improved, dehanced, the modified version of source shall be provided to requester, not the original which modifier used to make a modified version of program. Jean