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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL and Source code providing
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:54:04
Message-Id: 44A2DD29.9020206@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL and Source code providing by "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 28 June 2006 17:42, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
3 >> This is a common misconception. All that you really need to provide is
4 >> the patches.
5 > Not really, no. As Ciaran already said, FSF seems not to think this way and
6 > this is the most important thing on that article.
7 >
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9 Yawn, the misguided article is due the Mephis distributor having a long
10 track of misbehavior and depicting himself as a victim...
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12 As gpl2 you should provide a written offer for the source and hand them
13 over upon request using any machine readable medium.
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15 my 2 (fake) eurocents
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17 lu
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Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL and Source code providing Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>