I'm just curious how a project such as this would differ from, say, Rob Braun's unofficial Fink binaries hosted at fink.opendarwin.org. I love having those binaries available because it means I don't have to spend 24 hours building KDE 3.2 (or something similar). Is his work OK with Fink because it's *just* a straight build of the source code available from Fink directly?

On Mar 31, 2004, at 9:38 AM, Darian Lanx wrote:

Kevin Walzer wrote:

One more thing about the gimp-app project at Sourceforge...he's doing his distro apparently with the approval of the Gimp team. They put a link up to his binaries at gimp.org. Or would other parties have grounds to object under the GPL, for instance the Fink team? This gets a little murky. How easy would it be to distribute Fink sources? (I have no interest in getting into this level of distribution to be compliant with the GPL...this will just be an educational project for me. But I'm curious about the other aspects nonetheless.)

Well in the past there have been issues where others reused Fink work, but Mister Pfister did not really have time to persue it on a legal basis. As soon as the Fink INC is done in the United States I will have all the legal ground necessary to persue such issues _should_ it be necessary. Personally I think that it is merely a matter of arranging one Project with the other. I am not too amused to see Fink specific works inside another project _without_ them contacting us first, but I know that it will come back to bite them. Thus I am sitting back, smiling to myself waiting for the big bang.


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