violation of GPL for solaris binaries

[Eva Brucherseifer]

On Sunday 02 November 2003 22:41, Stefan Teleman wrote:
> I never provided Mr. Brown with any binary packages, for the reasons i
> had explained in my previous email. Not only that, but he made it
> very clear to me that he does not want the binaries to begin with.

Well, everybody who downloaded the packages from ftp.kde.org has the right to 
get the source patches... so far the legal point. But it's also quite ok to 
release the full source code instead of patches (in order to reduce work and 
make him stop complaining ;-).

What Scott describes in his mail was the way we wanted to go, but somehow it 
got stuck for whatever reason. So I also suggest to proceed this way. 

Actually right know I'd consider it more important to get CVS HEAD ported to 
the Forte compiler before the release in december. It's probably quite some 
work, but might also include some bugfixing. George <staikos at kde.org> is also 
doing the AIX and the xIC port at the moment. Maybe you can talk to him about 
how to deal with things.

BTW, it also took me quite some time to get a CVS account ;-) I guess this is 
some kind of filtering to scare off people who are not really interested in 
KDE.

Just my 2c,
eva 

>
> --Stefan
>
> -----
>
> On Sunday 02 November 2003 16:38, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> > As I said -- I expected that there was another side to this.  :-)
> >
> > I think the best resolution would be to get Stefan a CVS account
> > and somewhere to put these packages.  Stefan, also feel free to
> > send them to kde-core-devel where I'll try to follow up and try to
> > make sure that they either have a home or get integrated into KDE.
> >
> > Can one of the sysadmins on this list check to see if that mail's
> > still around and if the account can be created?
> >
> > It seems like all should be fine and wonderful so long as we have
> > patches for the stuff that's up on ftp.kde.org and a place to put
> > them...
> >
> > If you provided Phillip with binary packages for his site he is
> > entitled for the sources *only* for the binary packages that you
> > actually gave him.
> >
> > Sound good to everyone?  :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > -Scott