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On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 12:47:50PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Let me restate it: You can't rely on the fact that the source code is >"freely available". As I mentioned, that won't be the case for long >with cygwin 1.3.10. For everyone who is concerned by my insistence that people adhere to the GPL by making sources available for download, I'd like to direct your attention here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCSourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites RMS referred me to this site after I asked him for some kind of definitive statement on the issue so that I don't have to keep fighting the same battle over and over again. Of course, I should have realized that I was in no way unique and that there was already a FAQ for this. I want to definitively state that I have no intention of providing a backup system for people who want to point at sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) as a location to retrieve sources for the binaries that they are making available. If you are releasing binaries of any GPLed software you *must* make the sources available via the same mechanism. You cannot rely on me to keep the sources for your release binaries around. I'd suggest giving the whole FAQ a read, it clears up a lot of these issues. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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