Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 28, 2006 04:14 AM
The GPL comes into full force once you start distributing your derived work. If you're tinkering around with a distro and releasing your own in your spare time, then you simply need to find a bit more free time to make the sources available. Besides, if it's a derivative distro, that task should be fairly trivial:
1) Grab the distro from which you are making your derivative. 2) If you haven't changed a particular package, send it straight to FTP. 3) If you've changed a package, find your local copy and send it to FTP. 4) Update distro website with link to FTP.
Voila, instant GPL compliance.
Seriously, there is only one rule with the GPL: if you make changes and want to distribute those changes, then those changes must be freely available to others. If you don't wantto play by those rules, you're free to track down some BSD-style licensed software, or roll your own. The original authors gave you permission to use their software -- which they spent their own time on -- if you play by that one rule.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 28, 2006 04:14 AM1) Grab the distro from which you are making your derivative.
2) If you haven't changed a particular package, send it straight to FTP.
3) If you've changed a package, find your local copy and send it to FTP.
4) Update distro website with link to FTP.
Voila, instant GPL compliance.
Seriously, there is only one rule with the GPL: if you make changes and want to distribute those changes, then those changes must be freely available to others. If you don't wantto play by those rules, you're free to track down some BSD-style licensed software, or roll your own. The original authors gave you permission to use their software -- which they spent their own time on -- if you play by that one rule.
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