Hi! WARNING - personal opinion inside!
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Noyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 4:39 PM > To: leaf-devel > Subject: Re: [leaf-devel] GNU Compliance (section 3) - are you > compliant?? > > 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. I think that most of these upstream-downstream issues are not that relevant to Bering-uClibc, as we do provide the sources for all the packages. The exceptions are (IIRC) the kernel. We are a true distribution regarding the 'provide sources' statement. We do not base our work on Debian, Knoppix, or any other 'major' distro. Why this sudden nonsense? Do the guys at sourceforge.net really want to implode? Sorry guys, I just don't get the point. I does make sense for distributions like DamnSmallLinux, or those boot-from-usb-stick mini-distro, but not ours. For example, having +4k of 'GPL compliant comments' inside Shorewall seems ridiculous (sorry Tom, I have to say it, no offence intended). Our goal is still basic router/firewall that would fit on a floppy, while respecting GPL. Luis Correia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
