On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:31:20 +0200 Henry Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:24:41 +1300 > Bryan Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sources must only be provided in cases where the software is > > actually distributed by the provider. For example, if you provide a > > binary package, the source from which that package was made should > > be made available. > > It sounds like splitting hairs, but would providing a link to the > sources count as "making the sources available" or must the sources > be actual hosted on the project's server? What does your upstream software distribution licence say? > After all, we are talking about several Gigabytes of "web space" that > a project (in case of a full blown general purpose distro) must > provide to host the sources - which are already available through > their original sources and thus would be a redundant copy. From /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 (any Debian derivative will have this). The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. If upstreams source and yours match /exactly/ your statement might hold true. if you package it in some form, you need to provide that somehow. kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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