[MPlayer-dev-eng] violation of the GPL

Joey Parrish joey at nicewarrior.org
Thu Feb 19 15:10:49 CET 2004


On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:00:23AM +0100, Attila Kinali wrote:
> > Of course if other developers want you to actually store entire
> > tarballs of the source with your patches at your website, then I think
> > you should probably do that too. But IMO as long as you're working
> > with us, you have what the FSF would call an agreement whereby MPHQ
> > distributes the source, and you're only under obligation to make it
> > available directly if that agreement is broken off later on.
> > 
> > Make sense?

Well, each patchset is dated as to what CVS copy it was created with.
I suppose I will create a proper source tarball, though, before my next
release.

> How about a subdir for that stuff on MPHQ ? 
> Then Joey wouldnt have to mind diskspace or traffic.

As for that, I recently got a mirror at the university here.
Before I make another release, I'll be moving my downloads there.
(Free bandwidth!)

--Joey

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