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willy wonka
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Member # 32

posted August 21, 2001 05:22 AM

is there any particular reason that the sourcecode isn't included with your packages?
i, for one, would really like to configure BitchX before i install it. might as well use someone else's computer if i'm going to use someone else's BitchX config.

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-willy
"Freedom will henceforth be compulsory." -Random Party Manifesto

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chrisp
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Member # 35

posted August 21, 2001 01:14 PM

Good question. The GPL and LGPL licenses actually require anyone to distribute the source code "from the same place" as any binaries. You'd better hope that the FSF doesn't notice this site.

-chrisp

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apex
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posted August 22, 2001 11:17 PM

bitchx.org *cough*

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willy wonka
Member
Member # 32

posted August 27, 2001 05:47 AM

yeah. problem is, i can't get the source from bitchx.org to compile. tried a few different things, no luck.

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-willy
"Freedom will henceforth be compulsory." -Random Party Manifesto

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Ziwdam
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Member # 190

posted October 24, 2001 08:24 PM

quote:
Originally posted by apex:
bitchx.org *cough*

The GPL requires more than that. You need to have a link to the source code, and if you have to change the source in any way you have to offer the source to your users.

If you ported MY software (you didn't, because I don't have any ) I would be very annoyed, to say the least.

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apex
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Member # 1

posted November 23, 2001 04:11 PM

When I ported everything on the website I didn't know I needed to include the source. I had less than a few hundred megs of disk space, usually less than 50 megs. That means as soon as I was done with something I rm -rf'd it to free up space. So im obviously not going to re-port everything on the website, gpl is just going to have to live with it. I will make the source available for all new packages.

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