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Run virtual linux for USB or Dropbox with no install on OS X, PCs or Linux
MikeLevin:
Yeah, so all I have to do is find the original source to the binaries I'm using—should be avail—and stick it on Dropbox and refer back to it in my distro, so my download can stay 15MB. That sounds reasonable.
I would also like to point out that they say this is the "general rule" so that original source doesn't stop getting distributed from original source. A general rule is not a hard-and-fast rule for every instance, and the terse dismissive response I got here really made me feel unwelcome in this community.
Thanks to those who actually posted something useful. I will better adhere to the suggested spirit of GPL2 for code preservation purposes—which actually required information off the FAQ to clarify—and not the license itself, which does not explicitly state this.
curaga:
--- Quote ---and not the license itself, which does not explicitly state this.
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It's sections 3a and 3b in the license:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
3b would be hard for you to do if you didn't have a copy of the sources in the first place.
MikeLevin:
--- Quote from: sebus on February 17, 2013, 11:40:39 AM ---Just take out the vmlinuz & microcore.gz out & link to instructions for users to put them in to have the whole package
Easier & less trouble, sadly it does make one feel unwelcome
sebus
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I think you're wrong. All I have to is distribute the code side by side with the download link of the binary. You're just making incorrect blanket statements about GPL2 and making me feel unwelcome. Good thing I can see through such nonsense. The term "accompanying it with" in sections 3 means a download link with the original binary is sufficient. Otherwise, every FOSS project that offers a binary-only download (and many do) would be in violation. Are you suggesting Live-CDs of Knoppix be distributed without the Linux boot kernel and that all embedded Linux products that use Busybox have BB source in the embedded device? Ridiculous. Methinks I detect pedantic troublemaking for its own sake.
gerald_clark:
It is not a matter of making you feel welcome or not.
You must follow the forum and project rules.
Before posting here you are to read and follow http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,5543.0.html
MikeLevin:
I did not post in this section. I posted in Micro Core and it was moved here.
And it absolutely is about feeling welcome... it is a forum based on community and helping each other. People who say forums are not about making people feel welcome—even if they have the intention to comply with all the rules—just drive potential influx of new lifeblood for the forum away.
And I am not necessarily not in compliance with GPL2, and if I'm not, I really appreciate the constructive help of those who are not reactionist high horse police, and actually try to provide something useful in the refining of a Beta version specifically to address issues like this.
If the game here is dogpile on the rabbit, then it explains why TCL hasn't gained more popularity. Are you (gerald_clark) really the best the TCL community has to offer?
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