From: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The current rules for making Emacs binaries available on the net?
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 17:51:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9B30A326-3575-409D-B989-7D981A845C8D@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim9rrXRsXj3X17EHJRwnM1EYvMKzc5jUxRBMgH5@mail.gmail.com>
On May 14, 2010, at 6:51 PM, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
> 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?
Apart from the GPL, what is also important is to support the sustainability of the project by animating people to write code and contribute patches.
In my experience, binary distributions are not necessarily productive in that sense. It is important to make it dead-easy for people to install the source distribution and build from it. Pre-requesites should be spelled out, a standard build system and sequence (./configure; make; make install) used, and so on.
Fulfilling the GPL is just a minimum requirement.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-15 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-13 13:40 The current rules for making Emacs binaries available on the net? Lennart Borgman
2010-05-14 21:03 ` Richard Stallman
2010-05-14 22:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-15 20:27 ` Richard Stallman
2010-05-15 21:51 ` David Reitter [this message]
2010-05-16 6:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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