Rex Dieter wrote:
Any copyright holder of any work can relicense it at anytime with new terms. So the copyright holder doesn't have to live by anything they've done in the past.
and theirs to distribute how they see fit.
True, provided it complies with their (own) licensing terms.
Of course the copy right holder would have to live with public opinion, reprocussions.
One could apply multiple licenses, but one can not start with GPL source and produce something that is not *at least* GPL as well.The copyright holder can remove licenses also. They choose to nolonger offer the
software as GPL at anytime. They couldn't revoke the rights of those who already received the program under GPL, but they can stop being a source for new users to get the program at any time, and they can refuse to distribute new improvements they make to the program.
That's your 'prefferred form'. There's nothing in there that defines the preffered form. And 'available for download off the internet in any acceptable file format' is probably about as specific a consensus as you'll get the public to aggree too for a preffered form.And RealVNC complies with this by making the sources available as a tar file.
If they were *only* providing tarball binaries, this would be true. However, in the case of binary rpms, the "preferred" form the Source Code (as defined by the GPL) is clearly either a src.rpm or the (already-provided) tar-file + rpm specfile.
GNU and GPL were around for a long time before Linux, Red-Hat and RPM's. They don't define the 'preferred format' for anything.
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