I see no reason at all to obey the strict letter of the license in these 
cases. The sources are widely available elsewhere and we do not modify them. 
Using the libraries does not, in any way whatsoever, impair the ability of 
the user to obtain the sources.

Regards,
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Kozar" 
To: "Csound Developer list" 
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] "tool sets" for building Csound


> The intent of the GPL in this matter (according to the FSF) is explained 
> by
> these two FAQ entries:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#UnchangedJustBinary
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#SourceAndBinaryOnDifferentSites
>
> While this covers the GPL, I believe the LGPL is similar in this regard.
>
> One onerous aspect of this requirement for us is that each of us is
> potentially using a different version of some of the libraries to build 
> our
> Csound binaries.  In fact, these requirements seem a little onerous to me 
> in
> general for a project like Csound that has so many dependencies but does 
> not
> have the resources of a OS distribution.  (eg. if we distribute a copy of
> Jack or ALSA or statically link the GNU LibC library to make sure a
> compatible version is available, we probably should distribute those 
> sources
> too).  This makes distributing complex projects very impractical for 
> anyone
> but a Linux distro or something like Planet CCRMA or Darwin Ports.
>
> Nevertheless, these are the requirements of the licenses ...
>
> Anthony
>
> victor wrote on 4/18/08 4:29 PM:
>
>> I think if the GPL sources have not been modified (by for instance adding
>> them
>> to other code and then building the binaries of the compound code) and 
>> are
>> available
>> elsewhere, there is no need for this.
>>
>>> (1) The main reason I include these is that my understanding of the LGPL
>>> and
>>> GPL licenses is that offering the source code for download is required 
>>> if
>>> we
>>> are distributing library binaries that we compiled ourselves.
>
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