Re: anti-tarball clause and GPL

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2019, Yao Wei wrote:
> I believe that "flat" tarball in Adam's question means tarball stripping
> out VCS information, not tarball as a format.
> 
> Also, the clause doesn't disallow the distribution using tarball, but
> only define what "source code == preferred form for making modification"
> is.  So, "flat tarball" becomes object code license-wise.

Just one hint, if this comes in I will upload texlive with about a
70Gb tarball as source ... we have 15 years of history of "flat tarball
of 4Gb".

I don't think that *this* is the preferred form of changes.

Best

Norbert

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