On 2006/12/04 16:56, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > I am a co-author of Links and I can't see how the GPL is satisfied by how > OpenBSD is distributing Links binaries.
> "If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to > copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the > source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, this is already done, ftp.openbsd.org is the designated place to fetch the executable or object code. equivalent access to copy the source code is available in the same place. if there's a specific example of GPL software where this isn't the case, then give specifics (to the maintainer in the first case, otherwise to ports@) and I'm sure it will be resolved one way or the other. the source isn't on all the mirrors, but it's clearly available on ftp.openbsd.org and that's the place which most accurately fits the "designated place" description. > I came to this by chance when I was searching for the source of Transcode > distributed with OpenBSD, but couldn't find it. ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/transcode-1.0.2.tar.gz for this. patches are in the ports tree, so they're in ports.tar.gz on the ftp site, so any modifications made to the code are also distributed with equivalent access.
