At 12:31 PM 7/23/02 -0700, Mike Noyes wrote:
>Everyone,
> >From what I'm able to gather from the conversation on debain-legal
>pointing to upstream source isn't sufficient to meet GPL requirements.
>Did I understand the thread correctly?
It depends on the nature of the "upstream source".
Some LEAF packages (for example, anything lifted straight from Debian
Slink, the way it was pretty much all done, except for scripts that are
their own source, back in the "good old days") probably qualify under
section 3C of the GPL. That is, the LEAF site need only refer people to the
appropriate Debian site, or someplace else if needed ... I'm not current on
where the active developers actually get their code from.
Packages that get customized, then recompiled by LEAF participants,
probably need source provided (should be easy for Dachstein and Bering,
since CDs are roomy by LEAF standards; les convenient for Oxygen).
BTW, section 3C reads:
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
[...]
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to
the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form
with such
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
We are certainly non-commercial, and if our developer didn't recompile it,
he received it in object code.
Also remember that we include some non-GPL'd stuff, like tinydns and
dnscache. I can't even guess what we're supposed to do about source for
that stuff.
The Debian thread you asked about was mainly discussing people who *sell*
Debian CDs, and the requirements for commercial distribution don't include
the "upstream source" option.
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