Claudio Freire
It's not the spirit of the GPL that the distributor should provide absolutely everything, otherwise people would be forced to give you the hardware and operating system used to build (as that can influence build results, as is notoriously true in the atlas package). No, the scripts mentioned in the GPL are already there on the tarball. All the other stuff openSUSE provides are conveniences, not necessary for GPL compliance.
It is disputable what's the spirit of the GPL, given the fact that GCC was distributed under a license that required to include everything in 1986. I asume that this GPLv0 (as used with GCC in 1986) is what we should call what RMS understands by the spirit of the GPL as this was the uncorrected wish from RMS. We had a long discussion from this problem, as this GPLv0 license did try to force people to redistribute e.g. libc even though the license of libc did not allow that. RMS finally understood that the GPLv0 was a license that is completely unusable and introduced the execption that allowed to omit libc and similar things from what he calls "complete source". Note that there is a difference between "source" and "complete source". Everything that is part of the "source" needs to be under GPL but what you need to add to get "complete source" may be under any license....even closed source as long as it is redistributable. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org