Distributing a Fedora appliance

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 13:59:04 UTC 2010


On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Mike Wohlgemuth <mjw at woogie.net> wrote:

> On 11/26/2010 01:37 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Bruno Wolff III<bruno at wolff.to>  wrote:
> >> If you distribute binaries, you need to make source code available as
> well.
> >> There are a few ways to do that and you want to make sure you are doing
> at
> >> least one of them.
> > The source code is already provided by the distro distributed. A VM is
> > just a repackaging of the distro, in its installed form.
>
> While your statement might sound reasonable on the surface, I do not
> believe it actually complies with the GPL.  As a distributor of GPLd
> software, you are responsible for providing the source.  The fact that
> the source is available elsewhere does not absolve you of the
> responsibility, just like the source being available for RHEL does not
> absolve the CentOS project from needing to provide the source they use
> to build the CentOS binaries.
>

If someone asks, I will provide the source. I don´t believe anywhere in the
GPL it makes the explicit requirement to upload the sources to a public web
server.

FC

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