Re: [tlug] Debian rant

[Jawaad Mahmood <jawaad.mahmood@example.com>]

Without the tool chain, it makes no sense to make the code open.  After all, no one will be able to build / modify / hack the code.  

I believe this was one of the GPL2 problems that were resolved in GPL3.

I'm no open source purist but I do think this makes more sense then you are giving it credit for.


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On 2010/09/18, at 7:19, Shawn Brown <big.coffee.lover@example.com> wrote:

>>  > It seems weird to me that to make a Debian package that will load a
>>  > binary onto another device, that the src files and tool chain
>>  > needed to make that binary be included in the Debian package.
>> 
>> It's entirely unclear what you're talking about.  Is it possible that
>> this is just the GPL requirement to include the preferred version of
>> the source for modifying the software in any distribution?  If it is,
>> it's not a question of "Debian ideology", it's the law.
> 
> No that's not the issue.  We include the source for everything and the
> toolchain itself is gpl.
> 
> What we want to do is include a binary that will be flashed to a third
> device.  Debian maintainers are saying that to make a package which
> will flash the binary to another device, that we should include the
> tool chain to make the binary in the Debian package, and create it as
> part of the Debian install.  After it's flashed, the package will
> enable the user to communicate write programs for the device.
> 
> Yeah, when I think about it, I don't understand it either.
> 
> Shawn
> 
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