On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:37:01AM +0100, Michael Neuffer wrote: > Quoting Brian May (bam@debian.org): > Please read the GPL section 3b). > IANAL.... > But this clearly shows that we MUST keep a history of the last three years. > We are not doing this and thus violating the GPL. Actually, as of pools, we now always satisfy 3a: when we distribute a binary, we now always ``[a]ccompany 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''. > IIRC there was one incident about a year or two ago when M$ got into > trouble when it wasn't able to reproduce some parts of Windows 3.1 or 3.0 > when the US Navy requested it. This tells me that there must be some > laws around that require this as well. I know for a fact that in the > banking industrie (retail and investment) you have to keep the sources > for TEN years for example. For released architectures, we're nowadays keeping the source publically available in perpetuity with archive.debian.org. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
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