On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 02:36:28PM +0530, Rahul wrote:
"The article revealed that many distributions' maintainers
were
erroneously assuming that they did not need to provide source
repositories for packages they did not modify, so long as the original
upstream distribution did provide the source code. This responsibility
is by no means new, but seems to have been widely overlooked. David
I'm kind of shocked that anyone with the skills to maintain a derivative
distribution wasn't aware of the basics of the GPL.
Needless to say, a better working arrangement with derivative
distributions is pretty important for Fedora. We have a number of Fedora
derivatives out there that could be doing interesting modifications that
we need to look at.
And we need to do a better job feeding back to Fedora. There's just so
little time!
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