On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 12:20, Mike Noyes wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 11:43, John Klar wrote:
> > Just some observations about my interpretation of the GPL.  Perhaps they
> > won't be terribly popular, but hopefully it'll make a few people *think*.
> > 
> > [2] Pointing requestors to the upstream source is NOT good enough.  The
> > distributor is required to provide the sources THEY use.
> 
> John,
> Would this apply to our packages (.lrp) also? If so, nearly all of our
> packages are non-compliant. If I recall correctly, source of packages
> only compiled (not modified) by us (LEAF) or the Linux Router Project
> were always pointed upstream. I think Mathew Grant was the only one to
> include package source along with .lrp packages he produced.
> 
> If this describes the situation correctly, it gives us even more
> incentive to migrate to a ports/gento based system for our .lrp
> packages.
> 
> -- 
> Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/
> http://leaf-project.org/
> 

Dave Cinege used to post snapshots of his LRP development tree,
including sources of (all?) compiled applications. Ah: I see it is still
available from
ftp://www.linuxrouter.org/linux-router/dists/2.9.8/source/

Personally, I don't care whether sources are provided directly or
upstream as long as they are publicly accessible. Unfortunately, this is
not always the case for LEAF releases, which can include binaries
compiled from modified sources, where the modifications are not publicly
available.

-Richard




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