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Subject: | RE: strange source packaging? |
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Date: | Fri, 19 Apr 2002 23:05:53 +1000 |
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From: | "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> |
To: | "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> |
Cc: | "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com> |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu] > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:57 PM > To: Robert Collins > Cc: Corinna Vinschen > Subject: Re: strange source packaging? > > > 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. Section 2a is pretty clear. Rob
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