Re: Possible GPL violation.

[Robert Biuk-Aghai <robertb at umac dot mo>]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for pointing out my oversight of the appropriate GPL licensing
terms. It was not my intention to violate the GPL, and I will
endeavour to satisfy its requirements relating to source code
distribution. In the meantime, I have disabled access to the binary
archive on my website.

I searched for the Cygwin source code and found that it exists only in
the form of separate <package>-src.tar.bz2 files on a number of ftp
mirror sites.

Is my reading of the GPL, term 3, correct in that I need to download
the sources of all packages included in the binary archive file I
prepared, and place them on the same web server as the binary archive
file itself? Or would it suffice if I provided a link to the nearest
ftp site from where the sources can be downloaded?

Robert.

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On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote:

> Robert,
> 	I'm writing to you because I noticed that
> <http://www.sftw.umac.mo/~robertb/courses/sftw120/cygwin.html> has
> instructions for downloading a 17Mb archive of the cygwin utilities, but
> no link for the source code for the same utilities.
>
> Are you aware that the GPL requires *you* to make such source code
> available?
>
> Cheers,
> Rob

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