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- From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
- Subject: Re: SLS: now available (for testers)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.231300.12085@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 23:13:00 GMT
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- From: rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo)
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 18:41:15 GMT
-
- How 'available' will it be, considering the next paragraph in which
- you say that you don't actually have the source yourself? If I buy
- your distribution, will you then, at no extra cost, send me the
- source? Didn't think so.
-
- >You also seem to have erroneously assumed that I have such a source
- >tree in my possession.....
-
- Ahem. The GPL does not state that you have to have and distribute a
- source *tree*. It merely states that you have to make the *sources*
- available. Do you understand the difference?
-
- The GPL also does not require that you send the sources at no extra
- cost, if they weren't included in the distribution. It states that you
- must provide them *at cost*. You should read the GPL before you you
- start flaming about it. Peter has fulfilled this requirement.
-
- I imagine he has the individual source packages which were posted by the
- authors who made the original binary distributions, and that's what he's
- making available. He probably hasn't recompiled the binaries to make
- sure they match the sources 100%, and is instead relying on the original
- posters to make sure this is the case.
-
- Do you have a problem with that? After all, I do the same thing on
- tsx-11, one of the major FTP sites for Linux in the U.S. I have
- neither the time nor inclination to make sure the posted sources and
- binaries match up. I hope you don't have a problem with it, because I
- have NO intention of changing what I do just because some juvenile
- flamer starts whining about what other people should do with their
- donations of their time.
-
- Now, will you all get off Peter's back? He's doing the Linux community a
- great service, and all he is getting is flames. Sheesh!
-
- - Ted
-
-