GCC for Siemens C165

[Robert J. Brown]

>>>>> "David" == David J Fiddes <D.J@fiddes.surfaid.org> writes:

    David> Hi, Just spotted this message from DJ Delorie on the Cygwin
    David> mailing list:

    >>> Besides that IMHO you have to provide the sources *on*
    >>> *request*!
    >>  Not quite.  You have to provide a *written* offer to provide
    >> the sources.  You can't do that via ftp/www, so that option
    >> isn't available to ftp/www binary distributions.  The only way
    >> to satisfy the GPL when you use ftp/www is to put the sources
    >> with the binaries so that the user can download them both at
    >> the same time.

    David> Hightec can comply with this quite neatly by pulling the
    David> no-cost binaries from their site...

Not quite.  They need to also notify everyone who has already
downloaded that software how they may get the sources, and that the
software they downloaded falls under the GPL, since it does by virtue
of being a derived work.

Now, anyone who has already downloaded this software has in their
possession a legitimate copy of a peice of GPLed software, which they
are free to make availble under the terms of the GPL.  This means that 
they may put it on an anonymous ftp site for public downloading,
provided, of course, that they comply with the terms of the GPL,
meaning that they provide a copy of the GPL and reference to the
sources, which can be a URL where they may be obtained.

Now the only problem is obtaining the sources from High-Tech, since
they obviously do not want to make them available, even though they
must in order to comply with the terms of the GPL, since they have
already distributed copies of their derived work.

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