Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 19:58:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: freebsd-mirror@sol.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can anyone educate me on the packages directories? Message-ID: <199710172358.TAA27535@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199710172314.QAA02056@bubble.didi.com> References: <199710171706.NAA26311@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199710172314.QAA02056@bubble.didi.com>
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<<On Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:14:02 -0700 (PDT), asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) said: > I thought you just needed to point the user to the "real" source > (ftp.freebsd.org will do) as long as they are distributing it. No, the GPL technically requires that anyone who DISTRIBUTES a binary must also make the exact source used to build that binary available, either as a part of the same transaction, or at some future demand of the recipient. I really can't justify buying another $300 disk for the distfiles. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick
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