On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 07:20:42AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Dude, read your GPL. > The GPL requires: > 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: > a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable > source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections > 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, > b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three > years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your > cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete > machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be > distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium > customarily used for software interchange; or, > 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.) > Neither b nor c can be applied to an apt repository and has never been > used by Debian (Unless there is such an offer in the Release file or > something you might think up). <harumph> And among those things that the GPL *doesn't* say is, "The source code for a work means a Debian source package." Almost all the contents of the buildd package are written in a scripting language of some sort, with the exception of a single compiled wrapper. > From a legal point it certainly is. Debian (or rather the person > responsible for the server) is responsible for not doing something > illegal. While it's reasonable to request access to source code for the wrapper, it seems a gross overreaction to talk about its omission being "illegal", when it's just as likely that the copyright file has misattributed authorship to Roman of a wrapper that James wrote (in which case he's within his rights to engage in binary-only distribution of a work he's placed under the GPL). -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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