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Re: strange source packaging?
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Cc: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 08:57:16 -0400
- Subject: Re: strange source packaging?
- References: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA7600C5E7A@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>
Robert Collins wrote:
> And the GPL requires us to document the changes made - if we have the
> patch pre-applied, with no reverse patch, then this isn't the case.
> Asking folk to go elsewhere to get that 'pristine' source puts the onus
> on the upstream to make that available, which we can't do - for the same
> reason that folk that ship cygwin1.dll need to host their own copy of
> the source.
At the risk of wading into yet another GPL argument -- I don't think the
GPL requires documentation of the entire provenance of changes relative
to some external source; it's just the polite thing to do.
All the GPL requires is that you distribute THE source that YOU used to
build THE binary YOU distribute. That's it.
--Chuck