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> From: Brandon Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> I downloaded a few src rpm from different developers.... what is
> the GPL issue involved? Do I have to send my changes to the
> author?
>
> I used their spec files as a base to build my own RPMS?
With the caveat that this is not legal advice, etc., you are not
required by the GPL to send your changes to the author as such.
However, you must make source (including the spec file) available to
anybody you give a binary to. Also, any derivative work must itself
be licensed under the GPL.
Now, as a practical matter, I've sent suggestions on changes I've
made to the horde/IMP spec files to the maintainer of those RPMs.
Those changes made it easier for me to modify them to build
e-smith-compliant RPMs, and also would have made it easier for
anybody else who wanted to customize things like document locations.
I wasn't required to do that, but it made everybody's life a bit
easier (including mine).
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Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the
more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring."
-- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille
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