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Jim Jackson m("...","jj");"><> wrote:
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> On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, j.chitte wrote:
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> > It would be cool if TS could start complying with license and
copyright a
> > bit more seriously. It should not be up to users or copyright
owners to
> > notify them.
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> > If you use GPL you publish the source next to any binaries ,
it's that
> > simple.
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> Have you sent a request direct to TS to request the source?
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> AFAIK the GPL does not mean that TS has to "publish" the source to
all and
> sundry. It just has to make the source available to anybody that
it
> supplies the binary to. I believe it should tell you somewhere how
to get
> hold of the source. However one way to fully comply is to make the
source
> generally available to everyone, it's just easier for all
concerned.
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> If TS fail to supply source - THEN beef about them - big time.
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> cheers
> Jim
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/compliance-guide.html
GPLv2 § 3:
If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access
to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to
copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the
source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the
source along with the object code.
This is by no means the only way to comply but it is by far the
cheapest and simplest. I also doubt that TS wants to get into providing
CDs in response to individual requests for odds and sods like this.
Since Micheal from TS was good enough to reply to my inquiry about
flash recovery I am hoping he will read this thread and be able to post
a link (maybe its just elsewhere on the server).
If not , I suppose I'll have to make a formal request directly to TS.
In any case I don't see compliance here since there is not even "an
offer of source" via another medium.