From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Oct 17 16:58:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA16440 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:58:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA16422; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:58:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA27535; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 19:58:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 19:58:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199710172358.TAA27535@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? In-Reply-To: <199710172314.QAA02056@bubble.didi.com> References: <199710171706.NAA26311@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <199710172314.QAA02056@bubble.didi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < 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