[aur-general] When does a package need -svn?

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Fri Apr 24 22:57:17 EDT 2009


Ray Rashif wrote:
>> Actually, it is distributed under the GPL, so that is techniqually fine...
>>     
> Yes, but that is why I mentioned "author's intentions".
>   

But the author also intends you to provide the source when you 
distribute binaries.  That is why they used the GPL license.  So I would 
pick that intention over the contradictory one...

Allan






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