Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:21:12 +0100
From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org
That part of my site is not very userfriendly. I do not expect anyone to
download the sources
That is a wrong assumption: the GPL _requires_ that the sources be
readily available.
What is a wrong assumption? My only assumption is that people will
probably not download these sources from my site.
So please add some text to the pages where you
advertise the additional programs that gives a link to the sources.
It is quite reasonable to do that, but as far as I can see it is not
required. I think the most userfriendly way to handle this is a special
page saying where the sources are. I will do that when I find time.
IMHO it is a weakness in the GPL not requiring this. (If I am wrong then
please point me to the exact part of the GPL that requires this.)
BTW there is a much, much bigger defiency in the GPL in that it does not
require that working instructions for compiling the sources should
distributed with the sources (or at least a link to such instructions).
The sources we are talking about here are quite hard to compile. Does
not this threaten the intent of the GPL?
