Re: [comp.emacs.xemacs] AUCTeX 11.84 released

Mats Lidell <matsl(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: You are on the wrong track. There is a "full source code" claim on the group whenever this issue crops up. The problem is not that it is offensive, but that it is factually wrong. Sure, but the consequence would be that the package contents would have to be changed accordingly. That means work (where it is not clear who would have time to do it), and loss of face. So it is easier to see how one gets along with denial. Obviously not, since the GPL clearly states that the complete machine-readable source code has to either accompany the package, be available from the same download location (and a non-mirrored CVS access is not the same download location as a mirrored ftp server), or a written offer to supply it has to accompany the distribution (there is another option, but it does not apply here). This makes sense if you think of it: if a private person offers some program of his under the GPL, and a large company takes this program and sells 10 million binaries, then it would not be fair if the creator's server bogged down because the source can only be had there. So the deal with the GPL is that the person responsible for the binaries is also responsible for the source. That does not mean that XEmacs central is not free to throw away Makefile and autoconf from upstream and replace them by whatever is more convenient for them, but it does mean that whatever they replace it with for the sake of building this particular package has to accompany the package or be downloadable from the same location. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta