Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 01:14:13 +0900 From: Stephen Turnbull To: DJGPP AT Sun DOT SOE DOT Clarkson DOT EDU Subject: Possible FAQ: Distributing djgpp (or any other large package) If someone else has access to the binary-only area you maintain, yup, you've got to store the sources there also. You can choose who can download the files from your area, but anyone that you choose to let get the binaries you are required to let them get the sources the same way. Well, Tony seems to think he doesn't have a problem. Maybe his package is used only on computers in a lab under his control. I know that *I* have the problem, though. And solving it takes up more space than I currently have free on that partition. :-) We will fix that shortly.... > Um, what's cheaper than free? Get Linux. OK, if yer runnin' Maxen Well, it's not free if you have to buy a PC to replace the one that isn't running your accounting package any more, plus buy a network infrastructure. ;-) You don't; Mr. Appleyard has already supplied one. As for the network structure, you just need serial line switch.... I said "ftp," not a full internet connection ;-) > If "someone" isn't on call within the same amount of time as for the > original installation to provide Mr.X with the sources, this is a > copyright violation. Don't forget that aspect in applications, I don't know if time is specified in the GPL. S/He just has to be available with the same cable. It is an interesting question, though. Well, if sending diskettes by mail is not an acceptable substitute for sources available on the same server as the binaries, I bet the courts would uphold a suit that says a policy like "make an appointment for the day of the next total solar eclipse" is too slow.... -- Stephen Turnbull / Yaseppochi-gumi / http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/ anon FTP: turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp Check out Kansai-WWW, too ------------> http://pclsp2.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/