On 25/03/08 10:13, Markus Neteler wrote:
Moritz Lennert wrote: ...
I don't think this is an appropriate answer. Glynn did not
necessarily mean that you are the one that has to host these files.
In fact they should be on the osgeo GRASS site next to the
installer, but to just shrug it off this way is not the way to go.
Making sources available is a fundamental element of free
software.
...
So, to shorten a long discussion, I just used this simple command
line to download all the source packages mentioned in your guide:
for i in `grep "source code" BuildFromSource.html | awk -F'='
'{print $3}' | awk -F'"' '{print $2}' | sort`; do wget $i; done
And I downloaded the msys, flex and bison sources manually.
Everything is available at
http://geog-pc40.ulb.ac.be/grass/wingrass/wingrass_sources/
including the version of the GRASS sources you used (don't think
this is necessary, but just to be complete). All packages are
available individually, and there also is a wingrass_sources.tar
which contains them all.
Maybe Markus can just get the tar and put it on the download site
next to the installer ?
you mean: wingrass_sources.tar 13-Mar-2008 11:48 45M ?
I am not sure if we should really store that on the OSGeo server.
Then we have to do the same also for all the other binaries and fill
up the server space with overhead. If you insist, I suggest to
discuss this on the GRASS-PSC list.
What do you mean by "all the other binaries" ?
We could store the hard-to-get sources, but why host PROJ4, GDAL and
such?
Here is what Glynn wrote a bit earlier in this thread:
Please note that, if you provide binaries which are covered by the
GPL, you must provide the corresponding source code for download
*from the same place*. It isn't sufficient to point to the source on
a different site.
Alternatively, you can provide a written offer to supply the source
code upon request, but that means that you have to keep those exact
versions of the source code handy for the next 3 years (the website
where you obtained it may cease to provide it when a new version is
released).
Moritz
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