On 12/8/2014 20:17, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: > 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. >
Ruben, as I understand, MSYS2 has some local patches, simply providing a link to the Cygwin repository is not enough. Just bundle it together with the MSYS binaries with the option to install it, that way, you don't need to take precautions when upstream sources is moved or when it goes missing. I would prefer distributors to avoid going the Arch way, imho it is irresponsible to just host binary forms of your programs and expect users to go somewhere else for the source.
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