Posted by member 103975 on 2004-01-28 01:35:09 link

ilmcuts, are you planning to post the source to the SourceForge project CVS? Also, I had heard some talk here and there about porting the source over to a project format usable in Dev-C++. Any word on that?

Asking nicely, of course. ;)

@verbalshadow: technically, gravis doesn't have to be polite about it, although politeness is always appreciated. :)

INAL, but here are the facts as I understand them.

According to the GPL, providing a download link or CVS account for the source does not suffice to fill the obligations when the software is distributed under that license. The source either has to be distributed with the software, or the author(s) have to honor requests to send the source code to anyone who requests it, by mail, for a period not to exceed three years after the last distribution.

Providing downloads is an efficient, expedient and recommended -- but not sufficient, in license terms -- way of fulfilling the GPL's requirements.

Requests for the source code must be honored or the software (a) has to be relicensed, which requires the consent of all developers involved with the source on which the current distribution is based, or (b) cannot be distributed at all. That's the bottom line.

It's all covered here:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html