Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Jun 2006 22:23 UTC
Could many smaller Linux distributions be in violation of the GPL? That's what Warren Woodford, the man behind the popular MEPIS distribution thinks. As detailed in Bruce Byfield's excellent NewsForge story, "A GPL requirement could have a chilling effect on derivative distro", Woodford recently ran afoul of the GNU GPL (General Public License) requirement that downstream distributors of GPL code are obligated to provide source code to users in an easily accessible format.
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Because Woodford distributed the binaries under the GPL.
It's simple. Anyone who uses the GPL to distribute binaries must also offer the source. If Woodford wants someone else to provide the source, then he should also have them provide the binaries.
He has the source. Why didn't he offer it?
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He uses the ubuntu repositories, I don't see why he has to provide the sources of those packages? As long as his own repositories have the sources of everything that's in his repository it should be fine I think.