On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 11:26 AM Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 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. > You are responsible for making that source code available, not for shipping it by default ... Like I've said, it's fine for FreeDOS to mirror/archive/host source code for inactive projects. But FreeDOS often takes years to update, so for active projects it is actively shipping out of date source code. A referral to the current source with the mirror/archive as a backup makes more sense. Then again, it's not a big issue - the number of people using the source code for anything is very limited. Which is why this conversation started ...
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