Message-Id: <199809021433.QAA61188@ieva06.lanet.lv> From: "Andris Pavenis" To: DJ Delorie Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 16:37:22 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: egcs-1.1 CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: <199809021316.JAA03074@delorie.com> References: <199809021408 DOT QAA36460 AT ieva06 DOT lanet DOT lv> (pavenis AT lanet DOT lv) Precedence: bulk Date sent: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:16:26 -0400 (EDT) From: DJ Delorie Subject: Re: egcs-1.1 > > If the sources aren't on in the distribution, how can they build them? > > The GPL allows you to physically *mail* the sources to people, but you > have to provide *in writing* a promise good for three years to do so. > You can't provide a written note on an FTP site. For electronic > distributions, the sources must accompany the binaries, at least as > far as the ftp/http site. > > Besides, what happens if the sources on that other site go away? Then > you're violating the GPL again. > Then I'm not only person who is violating GPL. We'll I of course can upload also source archive when I'll be ready to do this. But anyway I think that I'll do it in single huge archive. Andris