🚀 go-pugleaf

In <RSW.92May12024413@flanger.cs.brown.EDU>, Bob Weiner writes:
>People are losing perspective on what Richard Stallman said as well
>as what the GPL says.
>
>In article <12MAY199200345333@me.udel.edu> johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
>
>>>In article <1992May11.050005.2488@algor2.algorists.com>, jeffrey@algor2.algorists.com (Jeffrey Kegler) writes:
>> 
>>>> Could I suggest that FSF license grant special permission for binary
>>>> archives, on a case by case basis?
>> 
>
>This is completely out of line since no one has asked that binaries
>stop be distributed (saving people the compile time) but only that the
>GPL be followed in making source available.
>
    Unless I misread the GPL, making source available doesn't have to
mean keeping it online, does it? I maintain a small ftp site for atari
software, including some fsf stuff. I have source to most but noy all.
    If I have a readme in the directories that don't contain source 
saying that if someone really wantts the source, write me at xxx 
address, and I'll go ftp the sources from a bigger archive and make 
them available. This seems to me to address both the spirit and the
letter og the GPL, doesn't it?


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John Henders					 " Only _my_ words are relevant to the issue " 
jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca 	  <1992May11.073237.14684@rotag.mi.org>
 T.K.O.O.C. 								kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)