[ Thanks to lh8
for this link. ]
“Matt Zimmerman has responded to a recent NewsForge article that
suggests that the maintainers of derivative distributions are
unintentionally violating the requirements of the GNU General
Public License (GPL). Ubuntu’s technical leader says the project
may be able to help.“The article revealed that many distributions’ maintainers were
erroneously assuming that they did not need to provide source
repositories for packages they did not modify, so long as the
original upstream distribution did provide the source code. This
responsibility is by no means new, but seems to have been widely
overlooked…”
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NewsForge: A
GPL Requirement Could Have a Chilling Effect on Derivative
Distros(Jun 28, 2006)