On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 08:07:15AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sun, 6 Apr 2003 23:08, Richard Braakman wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 08:39:16AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > > The source is available. I can give the details of the CVS etc. But > > > making the source all available with the package is rather painful > > > (someone else has done the compilation etc). > > > > GPL 3a requires you to "accompany [the executable] with the complete > > corresponding machine-readable source code". I don't think providing > > pointers to CVS archives fits this meaning of "accompany". > > > > The only other option that I can see (which AFAIK has never been used > > by Debian) is that you provide a written offer to give the source code > > (at cost) to any third party, according to 3b, and Debian distributes > > it in non-free according to 3c. > > OK, this sounds like the upstream is doing something wrong then. I'll contact > them about this. Familiar has been in stubborn violation of the GPL for most of the time it has existed. They claim there are more important things to worry about. I suspect the FSF would disagree. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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