On 1/29/13, Charles Landau <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/29/13 9:33 AM, Matt Rice wrote: >> Unfortunately some legalities have gotten in the way, >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Distribution?rd=Legal/Distribution >> >> so not only would we/I have to distribute the sources for our cross >> compilers, >> but the sources for anything originating from fedora as well > > If you "distribute" the cross-compilation environment, and the sources > for the cross compilers, by giving the URL of a server with that data > (e.g. SourceForge), then why can't you "distribute" the source of the > rest of Fedora by giving the URL of the Fedora servers?
well, the GPL section 3 is supposed to work like so: 3a(1): distributor: gives binaries + source to person A person A: gives binaries + source to person B person B: has source + binaries OR 3a(2): distributor: gives binaries + source to person A person A: gives binaries + 3b offer to person B person B: has binaries + offer 3b: distributor gives binaries + offer to person A person A: gives binaries + 3c offer to person B person B: has binaries + ability to get source. (theres of course more variations)... In the 3a(1) case, 'distributor' has fulfilled his obligations of the license via "provided that you also do one of the following" 3a, 3b, or 3c and has no requirement to give the sources to person B. If you take a look at the format of the repository: http://www.eros-os.com/YUM/coyotos/Fedora/12/ you will see: SRPMS/ i386/ under the following paragraph, this satisfies the obligations of 3a with the key piece being 'from the same place'. "If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code." so, from my perspective as a distributor, I can a) pass on the source code that was given to me b) pass on an offer for the source code. (which may in fact require a piece of paper, not sure) c) pass on the offer that was given to me and since I have no offer, I cannot choose c. from what I can tell without digging a whole lot yet, Scientific Linux mentioned by Lorens has a somewhat novel approach to this: 'Sites' distribute images that overlay on top of the standard scientific linux distribution, in that case, we'd only be distributing the overlay containing our cross compilers, allowing us to host the sources/binaries for only the cross compilers, not entirely sure though ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ CapROS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/capros-devel
