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Re: Fix gcc_update for libcpp (Was: Re: Mainline bootstrap failure while running aclocal in libcpp)

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 07:22:49PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > I'd rather have the right version picked up by default.  Heck, not
> > shipping the gettext.m4 needed to rebuild aclocal.m4 could even be
> > construed as a violation of the GNU GPL, since we're shipping a
> > generated file without its sources.
> 
> You don't need to ship sources, by default, to comply with the GNU GPL.
> You only need to ship sources upon request.

Not quite right: you must include a written offer, good for three years,
telling people exactly how to obtain the sources if you do not provide
them at the very beginning.  If this written offer is not included with
the binaries, you've violated the GPL right there.
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