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Re: Possible GPL violation.
- From: Robert Biuk-Aghai <robertb at umac dot mo>
- To: Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:40:25 +0800 (HKT)
- Subject: Re: Possible GPL violation.
- References: <1048380423.906.57.camel@localhost>
Hi Rob,
Thanks for pointing out my oversight of the appropriate GPL licensing
terms. It was not my intention to violate the GPL, and I will
endeavour to satisfy its requirements relating to source code
distribution. In the meantime, I have disabled access to the binary
archive on my website.
I searched for the Cygwin source code and found that it exists only in
the form of separate <package>-src.tar.bz2 files on a number of ftp
mirror sites.
Is my reading of the GPL, term 3, correct in that I need to download
the sources of all packages included in the binary archive file I
prepared, and place them on the same web server as the binary archive
file itself? Or would it suffice if I provided a link to the nearest
ftp site from where the sources can be downloaded?
Robert.
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On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote:
> Robert,
> I'm writing to you because I noticed that
> <http://www.sftw.umac.mo/~robertb/courses/sftw120/cygwin.html> has
> instructions for downloading a 17Mb archive of the cygwin utilities, but
> no link for the source code for the same utilities.
>
> Are you aware that the GPL requires *you* to make such source code
> available?
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
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