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

Andrei Thorp garoth at gmail.com
Sat Apr 25 14:17:40 EDT 2009


Legal licence holds some more weight over their strange habits, I think.

-AT

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Ray Rashif wrote:
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>>> Actually, it is distributed under the GPL, so that is techniqually
>>> fine...
>>>
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>> Yes, but that is why I mentioned "author's intentions".
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> 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...
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> Allan
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