Kalileo <kalileo@...> writes: > From a practical point of view, I understand that the > sources (even if unmodified) should be either - added > to the software package (which gets distributed, and > contains the .dll files) or
Iirc, the license uses the word "accompany", I believe no court has so far decided what this is means in this context, but making the source a part of the distribution certainly fulfills the requirement. If you read http://ffmpeg.org/legal.html you can see that the FFmpeg developers believe that providing the source code on the same server as the binary distribution and pointing to the source code in the same way as to the binary distribution also fulfills the requirement. > - there should be an offer included in the software > package with a download link to the sources pointing to > server(s) of the creator or distributor of that > software package (and not the servers of ffmpeg or Zerranoe). Your sentence is not entirely clear: If you talk about an "offer" for the source, it usually means that you offer in a legally binding way that you "ship" the source code to your customer on request. This certainly cannot be fulfilled with sources on a webserver which is outside of your control, but it imo does not make much sense today anyway because it is highly "unpractical". (Note that this "offer" that made a lot of sense at the time the license was written when disk space was expensive.) If you talk about links that point to the sources next to links that point to the binary distribution (to "accompany" your distribution with the sources), then it is of course your responsibility that the links actually work: An easy way to make sure they do is to host the source package on the same server as the binary distribution. A definite way - imo - to make clear that the distributor is not interested in fulfilling the license by offering source code is to link to an external server that is supposed to contain the source code (like for example "ffmpeg.org" - this for example happens very often). Carl Eugen _______________________________________________ Libav-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user
