[tex-live] final dvd build in pretest
Alexander Cherepanov
cherepan at mccme.ru
Thu Oct 22 02:38:20 CEST 2009
Hi Will!
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:21:12 +1030, Will Robertson <wspr81 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So how are going to go about full sources for texworks and poppler
>> under GPLv2-only?
> Sorry if I'm speaking out of turn here, but doesn't the GPL only
> require the availability of the sources upon request, not the actual
> bundling of them?
Well, you can accompany program with a written offer, valid for at
least three years, to provide sources upon request (clause 3b of
GPLv2). But this is widely regarded as burdensome because then you
need to keep actual sources around all the time while you distribute
plus three years after the last act of distribution. So you cannot
just upgrade and nuke all previous versions. Note that you need to
provide the exact version of the source code, you cannot provide a
newer version instead.
Alexander Cherepanov
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