From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The current rules for making Emacs binaries available on the net? Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 16:27:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273955242 9068 80.91.229.12 (15 May 2010 20:27:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 20:27:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 15 22:27:17 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 1ODNx6-00012g-53 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 22:27:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38099 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ODNx5-0000qD-Dy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 16:27:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47855 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ODNx1-0000q8-1u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 16:27:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ODNx0-0006Ve-0O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 16:27:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:37546) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ODNwz-0006Va-Mm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 May 2010 16:27:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ODNwz-0007da-Gc; Sat, 15 May 2010 16:27:09 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Lennart Borgman on Sat, 15 May 2010 00:51:51 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:124813 Archived-At: 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? That would satisfy the first clause. There is also the second clause: you must take care to make sure that the source remains available for as long as you distribute the object code.