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From: Barry Margolin
Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 07:38
Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 07:38
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In article <3870@balrog.ctron.com> smith@ctron.com writes:
>Since the FSF *does* have sites for the latest stuff, I presume therefore
>that the requirement is still met if the binary is kept completely up-to-date
>with respect to FSF offerings and references those?
I don't think so. The GPL says that if you provide binary-only
distribution, you must offer to make the corresponding source available for
at least three years. Providing a pointer to the latest source, instead of
the source to the version that someone downloaded a year ago, is not
equivalent. The FSF doesn't have to make old versions available because
they don't do binary distributions.
--
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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