On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 07:41, Mike Noyes wrote:
> That's the way I understood things also (linking to up-stream source was
> permissible when distributing unmodified binaries), but DSL and MEPIS
> were contacted by the FSF for doing exactly that.
>
> http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/23/1728205&tid=150
> This obligation is specified even more strongly in section 10 of
> the draft for the third version of the GPL, which specifically
> states that "downstream users" (those who, like Woodford, adopt
> the work of another project -- the "upstream distributor" -- for
> their own use) fall under these obligations.
Everyone,
Another NewsForge article on this issue.
http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/07/2044245&from=rss
"The article revealed that many distributions' maintainers were
erroneously assuming that they did not need to provide source
repositories for packages they did not modify, so long as the
original upstream distribution did provide the source code."
--
Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net>
http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/
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