On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 07:23, Erich Titl wrote: > Mike Noyes wrote: > > My understanding of the new enforcement is if you distribute you must > > make source available. No more linking to up-stream source for > > compliance, when distributing unmodified binaries. :-( > > I read the interview with Stallman, the way I understand it... > > If you provide software to download the source then the link it points > to _must_not_be_altered_. > > This is pretty sensible.
Eric, That's the way I understood things also (linking to up-stream source was permissible when distributing unmodified binaries), but DSL and MEPIS were contacted by the FSF for doing exactly that. http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/23/1728205&tid=150 This obligation is specified even more strongly in section 10 of the draft for the third version of the GPL, which specifically states that "downstream users" (those who, like Woodford, adopt the work of another project -- the "upstream distributor" -- for their own use) fall under these obligations. -- Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ SF.net Projects: leaf, phpwebsite, phpwebsite-comm, sitedocs Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
