From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 23.4 Updated Windows Binaries published Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:46:08 +0900 Message-ID: <87aa4wz9of.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <4F2EAF8E.3010106@alice.it> <83d39tcjdx.fsf@gnu.org> <87haz4zksa.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fweozgbu.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87d39szb88.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328514384 21006 80.91.229.3 (6 Feb 2012 07:46:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 07:46:24 +0000 (UTC) To: Lennart Borgman , Eli Zaretskii , Angelo Graziosi , "Richard M. Stallman" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 06 08:46:22 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 1RuJHH-00041w-GT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:46:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55947 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuJHH-0004nr-0b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:46:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54029) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuJHD-0004nY-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:46:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuJHC-00045H-0a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:46:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:45004) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuJH9-00044k-S6; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:46:12 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F4689707DD; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:46:09 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CCB9F1A282A; Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:46:08 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87d39szb88.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta31) "ginger" e6b5c49f9e13 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:148245 Archived-At: Stephen J. Turnbull writes: > > And when it comes to making the code easily accessible would not > > something like DOI be useful? (http://www.doi.org/) > Sure, you *could* use DOI to point to that, but if you fail to update > the DOI pointer when you upgrade the binary, you're in violation of > the GPL. Let me clarify that as Paul and others point out, you are in violation of the letter of the GPL, which requires actual source, not a pointer, but that's not what I meant. What I mean here is that you are also in violation of the spirit, because your pointer no longer points the to Corresponding Source, but to something else.