Federico Sacerdoti wrote:
If you're just doing this to be nice, and SuSE "is not nice", how does SuSE publish the source files for the packages it uses? I believe this is a requirement of the GPL.
If you publish a product (sell it, whatever) where any portion of it uses GPL code, you must make freely available the full source of your product. I doubt that freely available means if you ask really nicely someone in Europe will send a CD.
I dont see how you "dont have to" do this. Your packages are often made according to rules listed in GPL'd spec files, which means you would have to publish those as well. There doesn't seem to be anything in a SRPM that you are not legally required to disclose under GPL.
GPL says nothing about putting it on the NET.
1)"..You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee."
3a) "..which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange.."
SuSE only has released United 1.0 sources at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/unitedlinux/1.0/src/ but no updates. Neither public sources nor binaries, only to his customers.