On 20 October 2011 18:12, Petr Kovar <pk...@volny.cz> wrote: > > When we're at it: I was recently told that GPL, the license we use for > Pan, requires us to reference or include all patches and instructions needed > to build Pan. So if we release a binary version of Pan, regardless of > platform, we should also put all the needed patches and instructions > somewhere and reference them. > > Probably the easiest way here to meet the requirements is to simply commit > the patch to the Pan repo, or patch the configure.in script after some > #ifdef modifications.
Hi, IMHO, What you've been told about the GPL requirements is not strictly accurate - The GPL requires that any source code modifications are "made available on request" so it is not necessary to make them part of the core standard download. In fact, as I understand it, by posting the patch in this public forum, that requirement is already largely satisfied. On the other hand, if someone knows how to #ifdef the patch attached earlier in this thread so that it applies only to a Win32 build, then it would be great to have it in the core code :) It is not necessary to make Win32 work, it simply make the spell checker functionality work with a particular set of spelling libraries that are available for Win32. Perhaps as a compromise, the patch can just be put into a README.win32_spell.diff with a comment at the top of it explaining what it is for? Regards, Steve _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
