On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >
No, less clear, you've said that I've just spread some FUD, then appear to repeat exactly what I said. In your response, s/glibc/libstdc++.dll/ to see what I mean! I build a Qt application (Necessitas Qt Creator) for Windows and we distribute it with libstdc++-6.dll, so from what I'm gathering, we should also be providing the sources for this? Many thanks for increasing the U factor in FUD! > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
