On Fri, 27 Sep 2024, Michael Brutman via Freedos-devel wrote:
There isn't much that can be done about the binaries getting stale, as a distribution is a snapshot of what was available at the time. But I'd love to find a way where FreeDOS doesn't have to take responsibility for shipping source code too.
That's actually by design for the GNU licenses; if you distribute binaries, you're automatically on the hook for shipping source that can recreate those binaries.
I mean, there's valid reasons for requiring that - because it's _that_ code that the modifier is going to want, and releasing unbuildable code just to say "here, you can look but don't touch" WAS a common practice in the past.
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