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From: Mivz <mivz@×××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] GPL and Source code providing
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:25:50
Message-Id: 44A24A29.2080402@alpha.spugium.net
1 Hello,
2
3 I have just read the following story, which scared me a bit:
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5 http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/23/1728205&tid=150
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7 Does this obligation, to provide your own source, also count for a none
8 Gentoo developer making a overlay tree for one of his projects which is
9 licensed under de GPL-2? Because that is a derived distro form Gentoo
10 right?
11 Would that mean that, if u write software using the portage system, that
12 every package that is used by one of your own should be available from a
13 server of your own?
14 If, the developer should also provide it's own file server with all
15 those packages, this would cause that every developer that wanted to
16 make a overlay should be a Gentoo file mirror?
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18 Do my senses run wilde? Your just my imagination?
19 Do I understand this right?
20
21 Mivz
22
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL and Source code providing "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL and Source code providing Stuart Herbert <stuart.herbert@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL and Source code providing "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@g.o>