From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The current rules for making Emacs binaries available on the net? Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 00:51:51 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273877552 1213 80.91.229.12 (14 May 2010 22:52:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 22:52:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 15 00:52:31 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OD3k3-0005K3-IO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 00:52:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46672 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OD3k2-00055y-ST for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 May 2010 18:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44749 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OD3jv-00055t-GK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2010 18:52:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OD3jq-0003oZ-5A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2010 18:52:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:48155) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OD3jp-0003oT-Dn; Fri, 14 May 2010 18:52:14 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm20 with SMTP id 20so1328948fxm.0 for ; Fri, 14 May 2010 15:52:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=ex8PHVliFIwPgFArv4ds4J98yaGiTQIrpC5HwY8e7qU=; b=loAHI0fSitL/D3tk3Yr7piRPGapcMDiDzVOvpVKLo3DsXhM50c9mLI5k35XrgARleK ybo1apNIoROAA15vnPPYTDGvT9DL5cSnaPOQqlRdEtQeElx9h1E/afyjU+mBQ1xNUIxz 5POT7wAlv16HDNdyXGatL2jBuo5qqh8APM58s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=gMxsedd7uN0NsCbebpzqj6ztjquw1JA+YdnwAFJC3mGnVeXewBpliSteW35bzvTAxg V4yM2oGZamtS8y9Q4DIluSaISTBxjaeU+jcZNoV7R1TmMLQuM/NgP4VMzt76owCNh+UL bRHNLnVKoGFcTuLnOQF/vdAvarnSFr6b6SIp0= Original-Received: by 10.239.182.2 with SMTP id o2mr206347hbg.51.1273877532200; Fri, 14 May 2010 15:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.239.164.81 with HTTP; Fri, 14 May 2010 15:51:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:124783 Archived-At: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > See the GPL FAQ which is in gnu.org/licenses > for GPL questions. The section that is closes to my question seems to be this (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#UnchangedJustBinary): Can I put the binaries on my Internet server and put the source on a different Internet site? Yes. Section 6(d) allows this. However, you must provide clear instructions people can follow to obtain the source, and you must take care to make sure that the source remains available for as long as you distribute the object code. Now if someone distributes unpatched binaries built from Emacs sources is it then enough to tell from where this sources can be downloaded and what revision number the checkout had? My impression before was that this was not allowed, but looking at it again I can not see why it should not be allowed.