Reinhard Tartler
siretart at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 12:53:03 CST 2005
On 11/9/05, John Dong <jdong at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> It's understood that the sources are identical to Dapper origins. Linking to
> the upstream source location should definitely be valid GPL-wise.
He modified a gpl'ed program. So he has to provide the sources to the
binary he builds. It is not sufficient to just point to the 'upstream
source location' where the work is based on.
I'm generally not that picky. The point here is that I have no
possibilty to verify that there was really not anything else touched
than debian/changelog. Using the source package, I could debdiff it
against the ubuntu package and build it myself. Publishing a binary
package gains me nothing.
--
regards,
Reinhard
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