Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris
> On Tuesday 08 November 2005 02:26, Erast Benson wrote:
>> > Erast Benson <erast@gnusolaris.org> wrote:
>> >> If you do not see something specific, or newer versions, like(you can
>> >> find
>> >> debarchiver-0.3 but we have debarchiver-0.4 packaged), that means it
>> is
>> >> not committed yet and we are testing it right now and will be
>> committed
>> >> shortly.
>> >
>> > Erast,
>> >
>> > Unless you provide a written offer, good for three years, to supply
>> the
>> > source on request, you *must* provide the source code for a binary
>> > alongside the binary. That means that the source code for a specific
>> > version of the binary must be downloadable before you can provide that
>> > binary. Providing binaries without the appropriate source code (as
>> > required under 3(a) of the GPL) or a written offer for the same (GPL
>> > 3(b)) is a violation of the license, and thus infringes the copyright
>> of
>> > the authors.
>>
>> OK. point taken. This will be "fixed" soon. Hopefully in Alpha 1, which
>> bits is planned to be release by the end of this week.
>
> Sorry, this is another violation. The source comes first, then binaries
> next
> to it. Hm, I wonder how could you make people believe (trust>) in your
> "open
> source" project ?
All corresponding sources available at http://www.gnusolaris.org/sources.
Download page has a link to the /sources directory. And from now on, we
are going to publish source code first, than binaries.
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