From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 23.4 Updated Windows Binaries published Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:26:38 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4F2F729E.7090301@cs.ucla.edu> References: <4F2EAF8E.3010106@alice.it> <83d39tcjdx.fsf@gnu.org> <87haz4zksa.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fweozgbu.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328509617 24942 80.91.229.3 (6 Feb 2012 06:26:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 06:26:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Angelo Graziosi , Eli Zaretskii , "Richard M. Stallman" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 06 07:26:54 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RuI2P-0008Ar-Ty for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:26:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49469 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuI2O-0005gr-Oq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:26:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38988) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuI2M-0005fe-C3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:26:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuI2K-0000Gx-G4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:26:50 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:52628) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuI2I-0000GR-NY; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:26:46 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9668639E8007; Sun, 5 Feb 2012 22:26:39 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id m9McWdMSX8WZ; Sun, 5 Feb 2012 22:26:38 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.10] (pool-71-189-109-235.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.109.235]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8B74E39E8006; Sun, 5 Feb 2012 22:26:38 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111229 Thunderbird/9.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:148242 Archived-At: On 02/05/2012 09:42 PM, Lennart Borgman wrote: > I can't see that this in a legal way prevents from pointing to sources > that is not owned by the distributor. The GPL is clear that one cannot satisfy its requirements merely by pointing to sources that someone else happens to distribute. If one distributes executables, then one also has the responsibility to distribute sources, even if the sources are identical to someone else's copy. This topic came up last week with respect to a Mac port, and Richard responded there the same way that I expect he'll respond here; please see the thread starting at .