Re: violation of GPL for solaris binaries

Forwarding this to Eva, since she seems involved in KDE Solaris and
posted the announcement of these binaries on
http://dot.kde.org/1064340634/...

-N.

Klas Kalass <[email protected]> wrote:
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> What do other people think of this? 
> 
> Additionally to the patch issues it should 
> 
> If the 
> 
> Am Samstag, 1. November 2003 08:24 schrieb Philip Brown:
> > I have noticed that you redistribute binaries of kde 3.1.3 for solaris, at
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.1.3/contrib/Solaris
> >
> > The binaries claim to be compiled with sun forte, which seems to be true.
> > However, kde 3.1.3 does not normally compile with sun forte. Therefore,
> > some additional modification to the source code had to have been required
> > to generate the binaries.
> >
> > I have emailed the contributor,
> > Stefan Teleman
> > [email protected]
> >
> > asking him that he make the patches available to me.
> > He does not deny that that are patches neccessary. However, he claims that
> > the GPL puts him under no obligation to provide me with the patches.
> >
> > I have attempted to point out to him that this is not true. However, he has
> > threatened me with legal action if I contact him again.
> >
> > This leaves me only with the binaries that you are redistributing on his
> > behalf.  According to the GPL, I believe you need to now do one of the
> > following:
> >
> > a) assert under that directory that no further patches are needed to
> >    the standard KDE 3.1.3 distribution, to compile with sun forte.
> >    [which I belive is not true]
> >
> > b) provide the patches required in that area
> >    [the single file in the "PATCHES" directory does NOT cover this]
> >
> > c) Have some reference in that directory to point the user to a place
> >    where the required patches may be acquired
> >
> > d) remove the binaries from your site, and associated mirror sites,
> >    since without the patches, their distribution violates the GPL.
> 
> 



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