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Date: | Fri, 19 Apr 2002 08:57:16 -0400 |
From: | Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> |
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To: | Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> |
CC: | Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com> |
Subject: | Re: strange source packaging? |
References: | <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA7600C5E7A AT itdomain003 DOT itdomain DOT net DOT au> |
Robert Collins wrote: > And the GPL requires us to document the changes made - if we have the > patch pre-applied, with no reverse patch, then this isn't the case. > Asking folk to go elsewhere to get that 'pristine' source puts the onus > on the upstream to make that available, which we can't do - for the same > reason that folk that ship cygwin1.dll need to host their own copy of > the source. At the risk of wading into yet another GPL argument -- I don't think the GPL requires documentation of the entire provenance of changes relative to some external source; it's just the polite thing to do. All the GPL requires is that you distribute THE source that YOU used to build THE binary YOU distribute. That's it. --Chuck
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