John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas writes: > > In cases like this one, what has happened is that the copyright holder > > has simply failed to make legal distribution possible, by saying "you > > must distribute complete source" and then failing to provide it. > > He has provided what he claims is source. If he sues me for redistributing > all of what I got from him after he told me it included source he will be > laughed out of court.
In this case, one would be well advised to obtain an explicit waiver on the point, rather than to rely on such. Regardless, the question is irrelevant to Debian, because we require source.