Op 26 okt. 2012 18:10 schreef "Ray Donnelly" <mingw.andr...@gmail.com> het
volgende:
>
> Ok, if this is all true, then IMHO, ideally the necessary sources
> would be included with every build (even binary) of mingw gcc, with a
> big README explaining these legal requirements.
See the COPYING* files in the source distribution or the mingw??/licenses
directory in my builds. Granted, those are the raw license texts, but hey,
who am I to clarify legal texts... the one thing I thought I knew was wrong
:-)
Also, can someone clarify that you only need to be able to provider the
source when asked for it vs providing it in some public place, which might
not even be reachable everywhere in the world?
Complete side note: LLVM/Clang and associated libraries don't have these
problems, but need attention for Windows ;-) in order to provide a complete
replacement for GCC's infrastructure.
Ruben
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Earnie Boyd
> <ear...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Ray Donnelly wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>> On Oct 26 16:10, Ray Donnelly wrote:
> >>>> I've never seen any precedent of anyone ever doing this anywhere.
> >>>>
> >>>> Are you saying we are all in violation here? If so, 'we' includes a
> >>>> huge amount of developers and applications (every Windows C++
> >>>> application built with GCC!)
> >>>
> >>> No, that's not the case. This is the kind of FUD which is spread
> >>> way too often, unfortunately. There's an important difference here.
> >>>
> >>> Assuming you create a Linux application which is linked against glibc,
> >>> then you can provide binaries of your application, as well as sources
if
> >>> it's an open source project, at your sole discretion. There's no
reason
> >>> to provide glibc together with your application since you can be
pretty
> >>> sure that glibc exists on any target computer.
> >>>
> >>> But what if you *do* provide glibc together with your application? In
> >>> that case you provide a binary of a (L)GPLed product. Now that you
> >>> provide this binary, you're also required to provide the sources for
> >>> that binary since your user has the right to get the sources as well.
> >>>
> >>> Keep in mind that the GPL is a user-centric license. In a way, you as
> >>> developer are not the beneficiary of this license, but the user of the
> >>> product is, by making sure that the user retains the right to see the
> >>> sources of the product, whoever distributes that product.
> >>>
> >>> Does that make the situation clearer?
> >>>
> >>
> >> No, less clear, you've said that I've just spread some FUD, then
> >> appear to repeat exactly what I said.
> >>
> >> In your response, s/glibc/libstdc++.dll/ to see what I mean!
> >>
> >> I build a Qt application (Necessitas Qt Creator) for Windows and we
> >> distribute it with libstdc++-6.dll, so from what I'm gathering, we
> >> should also be providing the sources for this?
> >>
> >> Many thanks for increasing the U factor in FUD!
> >
> > I understood Corinna to mean "This is the kind of FUD" relative to the
> > "you don't need to distribute source, just point somewhere else" FUD
> > and the reason I butted in. If you distribute libstc++-6.dll then yes
> > you need to distribute the source that created it.
> >
> > --
> > Earnie
> > -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd
> >
> >
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