Hi Corinna,
With fear of my life I stick my head in a hornet's nest, with some remarks:
Archlinux solved this issue some years ago, and the bug report is cause for
an interesting read with some pointers on how to solve this for the MSYS2
folks: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5355
Any GPLv3 project does not need the source distributed, only a link
upstream should suffice (as long as it isn't taken offline by upstream of
course, so a better solution would be nice).
Cygwin is GPLv3, so that should be fine already, although technically, if
Cygwin people decide to take the hosting offline, MSYS2 would have a
problem. So that needs to be fixed for the sake of future disasters, not
curent infringement.
Anyways, just my 2 cents, and now I'm going to "Run, Forrest Run" the hell
out of here.
Ruben
2014-12-08 12:27 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]>:
> On Dec 8 14:01, Alexpux wrote:
> > Will update sf.net <http://sf.net/> repo today.
>
> Ok.
>
> > > And this is only for Cygwin. The situation of the other upstream
> > > packages isn't better. About half of the binary packages are younger
> > > than 6 month, while the latest source archives have been updated
> > > 2014-06-11.
> > >
> > > You're violating the GPL again in a pretty big style. Yes, not all of
> > > the affected packages are GPLed, but a lot are. What is so complicated
> > > to keep the sources up to date with the binary packages?
> >
> > I’m provide git repository with build scripts and patches that applies
> to sources:
> > For mingw:
> > https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages
> >
> > For msys2:
> > https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages <
> https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages>
>
> In how far does that alleviate the problem of the GPL breach?
>
>
> Corinna
>
> --
> Corinna Vinschen
> Cygwin Maintainer
> Red Hat
>
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