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clivesay

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Posted: June 13 2008,11:36

There's no doubt they need to be available at some point. I think he can be given a little time to get his stuff together.

Some may not realize it but the sources weren't always available for DSL. That was actually done not that long ago because John got notified that he needed to make them available. He had to play catchup and spend a lot of time to get them together in a cd.

So lets not throw this user under the bus just yet.

lucky13

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Posted: June 13 2008,12:03

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He had to play catchup and spend a lot of time to get them together in a cd.

One of the links I provided mentions that and quotes John about it. There had been a presumption by some derivative developers that so long as they didn't modify what they got upstream (in the case of DSL, from Knoppix and Debian) then the upstream-provided source is sufficient because they provided the binaries. The FSF/SFLC, though, said no: if you redistribute anything, the onus is on you to provide the source as well. On the spot. Mepis had to fix this. So did DSL.

Now it's this guy's turn. The GPL sources need to be available per the terms of the GPL or they need to be taken off line until he's able to comply. It's not throwing him under a bus when it's his obligation to follow the rules of developers who release their code under GPL.

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curaga

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Posted: June 13 2008,13:29

There are tons of other publicly available DSL remasters without source available.
I wonder why you haven't told their creators the same, or is it that this guy mentioned his in these forums?

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lucky13

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Posted: June 13 2008,13:59

This guy made his very public by posting two separate threads here about it with links and all. I don't know of other remasters. They clearly have the same obligation under GPL.

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Posted: June 13 2008,14:43

Hi,

Thanks everyone for all your comments and sound advice. As "clivesay" mentioned Iam making all the sources available at :

"http://www.metoolabs.com/src".

(Iam doing it as I speak). And also make changes to the docmentation links appropriately.

And if I couldn't do it for any reason, thnn I will certainly disable the appropriate links under "download" so there will be no .iso images. That way, no damage done.

thanks,
Ananda

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