On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:42:25AM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > Since most open source licenses make the distributor responsible for > providing the source, pointing to where you got the tarball from usually > isn't sufficient to fulfil license requirements. As an example, I seem > to recall the FSF stating that projects that host derivatives of GPL > licensed software also had to host the source code.
The GPLv2 allows you to charge for media. Strangely enough it doesn't talk about online bandwidth. Using physical media is out for a build- from-source option is out of the question. The fair thing to do is to host the sources and include pointers to both, the hosted sources and the originals (because it's good to know where those are), using the hosted sources by default for build-from-source. > So, in other words, we have to host it anyway as far as I'm aware. > > DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer and this is not valid legal advice. Same here. _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
