Re: Who puts the Windows binaries on the FTP server?

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:21:01AM -0000, Dave Page wrote:

> > > PS. Is the source on the ftpsite - if not you'll have Jason
> > after you
> > > before long :-)
> >
> > The source? It's the standard version of cygwin. It's just packaged
> > differently. :)
>
> Doens't matter. The GPL requires that the source be made available from
> the same place as the binaries.

Really? Where? The clause about providing source says (note the "or"
between the clauses):

3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:

a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,

b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,

c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form with such
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)

Did Justin compile the whole Cygwin package he is distributing?

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