Allowing EASY install of thirtd party software (RE: Two GPL clarifications)

2003-03-29 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)
If I have "analyzed" things correctly lately; most of the GPL violations are done in this situation: 1) Person "P" writes/ports some nice software using cygwin. 2) P picks out required parts of cygwin runtime objects and builds a package that is fast and easy to install. 3) P puts the pac

Two GPL clarifications

2003-03-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've talked to Red Hat's lawyers. 1) The interpretation that just providing a link to the sources is adequate is incorrect so we are correct in advising people that they need to provide sources for the binaries that they provide. This is so much of a "well, duh" that I felt embarrassed asking the