On Oct 26 16:10, Ray Donnelly wrote: > I've never seen any precedent of anyone ever doing this anywhere. > > Are you saying we are all in violation here? If so, 'we' includes a > huge amount of developers and applications (every Windows C++ > application built with GCC!)
No, that's not the case. This is the kind of FUD which is spread way too often, unfortunately. There's an important difference here. Assuming you create a Linux application which is linked against glibc, then you can provide binaries of your application, as well as sources if it's an open source project, at your sole discretion. There's no reason to provide glibc together with your application since you can be pretty sure that glibc exists on any target computer. But what if you *do* provide glibc together with your application? In that case you provide a binary of a (L)GPLed product. Now that you provide this binary, you're also required to provide the sources for that binary since your user has the right to get the sources as well. Keep in mind that the GPL is a user-centric license. In a way, you as developer are not the beneficiary of this license, but the user of the product is, by making sure that the user retains the right to see the sources of the product, whoever distributes that product. Does that make the situation clearer? Corinna > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 26 15:04, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: > >> And that Section 6 clearly states you can point to e.g. the GCC website for > >> the source code: > >> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#SourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites > > > > No, you're misinterpreting that. Read again. *You* can provide the > > sources of the GPLed stuff you're providing in binary form on another > > site. That does not imply that you can burden *somebody else*, aka the > > GCC website, with the resposibility to provide the source code for you. > > > > > > Corinna > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > > _______________________________________________ > > Mingw-w64-public mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > _______________________________________________ > Mingw-w64-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Windows 8 Center In partnership with Sourceforge Your idea - your app - 30 days. Get started! http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ what-html-developers-need-to-know-about-coding-windows-8-metro-style-apps/ _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
