[Info-vax] Python and various libraries updated

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/6/2020 12:52 PM, Jean-François Piéronne wrote:
>> I think we are pretty much in agreement on what GPL means.
> No, my reading of GPL is that source code should be provided in the same
> way you provided the compiled version. And not doing that is a license
> violation.
> 
> And you say that provided source code under request is enough, so it's
> not a GPL violation.
> 
> That's the difference.

OK. That is a difference.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html

<quote>
  3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, 
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of 
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:

     a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable 
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 
2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
     b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three 
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of 
physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable 
copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms 
of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software 
interchange; or,
</quote>

One can either distribute the source with the binary (point a)
or supply the source at request (point b).

Arne