Re: Providing source for .iso files downloaded using bittorrent

2011-04-25 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: What do you think? Um, I think I said the same thing, down to the reference to the GPLV3 clause meant to prevent the problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Providing source for .iso files downloaded using bittorrent

2011-04-24 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi everyone, the request to stop redistributing Debian in Germany sparked an interesting conversation in identi.ca: http://identi.ca/conversation/69498913 In that conversation Bradley Kuhn said: bkuhn @vinzv, Please note: *technically speaking*, !Debian project itself violates

Re: Providing source for .iso files downloaded using bittorrent

2011-04-24 Thread Walter Landry
Marcelo E. Magallon mmaga...@debian.org wrote: Now, back to the Debian case, Bradley seems to think that providing a method to download the source (e.g. apt-get source) is not enough. If I understand it correctly, he's saying we must do something extra to comply with GPLv2ยง3: a) provide

Re: Providing source for .iso files downloaded using bittorrent

2011-04-24 Thread Ben Finney
Marcelo E. Magallon mmaga...@debian.org writes: My interpretation of the whole thing is that in order to comply with the terms of the GPLv2, we should put yet another file, README.GPLv2, in the .iso explaining how to obtain the sources and accompany that with the offer to provide source