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aeva

A funny bit of trivia from the GPL's wikipedia page: Area Man Violates Own License

In 2011, it was noticed that GNU Emacs had been accidentally releasing some binaries without corresponding source code for two years, in opposition to the intended spirit of the GPL, resulting in a copyright violation. Richard Stallman described this incident as a "very bad mistake", which was promptly fixed. The FSF did not sue any downstream redistributors who also unknowingly violated the GPL by distributing these binaries.
Jeffrey

@aeva Funny bit of trivia: that isn't actually violation. The GPL only requires to make the source code available, and only to those you distributed binaries to. It does not require you distribute it with the binaries nor publicly post it somewhere.

They'd only be in violation if someone downloaded the binary and requested the source and it was refused.

Mar 23, 2023, 04:18 AM·Public
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