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Subject: Re: GPL Violation
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 23:36:04 -0500
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If you provide download links to where one can download the software does that not satisfy the following license
provision?

"If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering
equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, even though
third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code."

If not what then does the above provision mean?   Or more specifically just what does "place" mean?  The visible place
or space such as web page that offers links to source and binaries side by side, or some physical constraint that they
both must reside on the same domain, same machine or *gasp* even same hard drive.  Is it not the spirit of license of
the license to offer the source up and not hide it?  Or is it to demand some sort of fixed network topology?



----- Original Message -----

From: "Jason Tishler" <jason AT tishler DOT net>
To: <spt AT free DOT fr>
Cc: "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: GPL Violation


> On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 01:01:43AM +0100, spt AT free DOT fr wrote:
> > Responding to Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>:
> > I'm sorry but I guess you did not read carefully what was written on
> > my page http://spt.free.fr/fetchmail/.
>
> I did.
>
> > In fact, I don't provide cygwin*.dll, this is actually RedHat's
> > property.
>
> Then what is the following?
>
>     http://spt.free.fr/fetchmail/cygwin1.dll
>
> > What I did is modify fetchmail's sources as downloadable on my page (see
> > fetchmail-5.9.6.hacked_for_cygwin.tar.gz).
>
> And what about the following?
>
>     http://spt.free.fr/fetchmail/fetchmail-5.9.6-win32-setup-v1.0.1.exe
>
> which contains:
>
>     $ zipinfo fetchmail-5.9.6-win32-setup-v1.0.1.exe
>     Archive:  fetchmail-5.9.6-win32-setup-v1.0.1.exe   795256 bytes   12 files
>     -rw-a--     2.2 ntf     7203 b- stor  4-Feb-02 17:05 fienu.hl_
> *>  -rw-a--     2.2 ntf   322188 b- defX 13-Sep-01 05:03 cygwin1.dl_
>     -rw-a--     2.2 ntf      306 b- stor  7-Feb-02 10:13 fetchmail.cf_
>     -rw-a--     2.2 ntf   180155 b- defX  4-Feb-02 10:23 fetchmail.ex_
>     -rw-a--     2.2 ntf    17663 b- stor  4-Feb-02 17:05 fienu.dl_
>     -rw-a--     2.2 ntf    10366 b- stor 20-Jun-01 18:14 cygintl.dl_
>     -rw-a--     2.2 ntf    17883 b- stor  4-Feb-02 17:09 fifra.dl_
>     -rw-a--     2.2 ntf     7731 b- stor  4-Feb-02 17:09 fifra.hl_
>     -rw-a--     2.2 ntf    16343 b- stor 31-Aug-96 00:02 instsrv.ex_
>     -rw-a--     2.2 ntf     3838 b- stor 16-Jul-97 01:16 movexe.ex_
>     -rwxa--     2.2 ntf   207589 b- defX  4-Mar-02 14:52 setup.exe
> **> -rw-a--     2.2 ntf     3914 b- stor 31-Aug-96 00:11 srvany.ex_
>     12 files, 795179 bytes uncompressed, 761766 bytes compressed:  4.2%
>
> BTW, redistributing srvany.exe violates MS's SDK licensing.
>
> > So please, don't tell me I'm violating GPL Licenses ... :((
>
> Sorry, but IMO you are.
>
> Jason
>
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