[Info-vax] Python and various libraries updated

[Jean-François Piéronne]

Le 06/08/2020 à 17:20, Arne Vajhøj a écrit :
> On 8/6/2020 11:05 AM, Jean-François Piéronne wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> If you had said that you think VSI has a moral/ethical problem of
>>> using a lot of open source and not giving enough back to the open
>>> source community then that would have been a completely different
>>> topic than claiming that they are violating licenses.
>>>
>> What is not clear in:
>>
>> """
>> The fourth section for version 2 of the license and the seventh section
>> of version 3 require that programs distributed as pre-compiled binaries
>> be accompanied by a copy of the source code, a written offer to
>> distribute the source code via the same mechanism as the pre-compiled
>> binary, or the written offer to obtain the source code that the user got
>> when they received the pre-compiled binary under the GPL.
>> """
> 
> Nobody is denying what GPL means.
> 
> But that is not what I am discussing above.
> 
> I am trying to make a clear distinction between moral/ethical
> concerns and legal concerns.
> 
> Moral/ethical concerns give one significant freedom to
> state subjective opinions.
> 
> Legal concerns are a bit different.
[snip]

It's seems that we do not have the same reading  of
https://gpl-violations.org/faq/sourcecode-faq/

So I will subscribe to the associated mailing list and ask them, so we
will see what is right, my understanding of the GPL license or yours.

Maybe it's you, maybe not...
JF

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