On Fri, Sep 18 2015 at 10:54pm, dmccunney wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: >> But 3(b) in the GNU GPL says source code should be available up to >> three years after they download the binary, upon request. > The problem is that this is generally taken to mean "The source that > produced the particular binary the user has", so that the user can get > the source, reproduce the build environment, and create a duplicate of > the binary they have. > > Since the state of the source in an open source product is variable, > current source may not build, let alone duplicate the user's binary, > so you can't just point at the development repository when people > inquire about source. > > If you keep older binaries around, the source that produced them is > more or less required. Your practice looks like the best compromise.
Excuse me for interjecting, but doesn't a source repository do exactly that? If I get GitHub correctly, you can go back to any moment in time and download the source as it was at this particular moment. The question is: why not use e.g. GitHub for FreeDOS related sources? Cheers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
