[bt-devel] Windows build system

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

Quoting Barry Drake <b.drake at ntlworld.com>:

> I think you'll find that we can distribute the binaries without the
> source PROVIDED THAT we clearly state where the source packages can be
> obtained.  This can simply be a link to the sources that are already
> being provided.  This is the way in which BibleCS is distributed, so I
> assume BibleTime can go along the same lines.  The vast majority of
> Windows users will prefer NOT to have the source compulsarily foisted
> upon them!

GPL v2 doesn't allow that.

      a)  Accompany it with the complete corresponding  
machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the  
terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for  
software interchange; or,
     b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three  
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of  
physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable  
copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the  
terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for  
software interchange; or,
     c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer  
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed  
only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the  
program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in  
accord with Subsection b above.)

Giving a link is not enough, because it's not distributing. The  
CrossWire Bible Society can do that with BibleCS because they own the  
SWORD code. I guess they would allow us to do that, too, but it's  
better just to distribute the source.

The developers are not "the vast majority of Windows users". Of course  
we don't put the sources in the final binary distribution, but put  
them in the development package which we distribute from sourceforge.  
That way we surely comply with any Open Source licence.

--Eeli Kaikkonen