Okay. I guess I'm mistaken on that one. Thanks for clearing it up!
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*From:* John Rigg
*Sent:* Tuesday, January 05, 2021 3:08PM
*To:* Non
*Subject:* Re: [non] Where's the popcorn emoji?
On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 02:21:11PM -0600, Aaron Duerksen wrote:
I certainly agree with that. Thanks John!
I just figured that once it got into a major repo, then *that* version is
essentially public.?? No?
The 'project' or 'official' repo would usually be the upstream
source code repository run by the developer(s).
There are also the downstream package repos run by the Linux
distributions and others. Non packages are available from
Arch Linux repos, for example.
Both of these are public in the sense that you can download
a copy of the code or package, but private in the sense
that you can't just log in and change things. It's just a
matter of definition.
BTW, the GPL (despite being called the General Public
License) doesn't actually put anything in the public
domain from a legal standpoint. It just gives the
public certain rights to read and use the code, as long
as they stick to the license terms.
John
