[maemo-developers] How remove package from extra-devel free?

[From: Darren Long]

Hmm.  IANAL, but in my naivety, I would have thought that maemo.org would have to provide source for the binaries they (have) distribute(d).

Darren

On 19 Dec 2009, at 11:48, Dave Neary wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Darren Long wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, assuming its a GPL package, wouldn't you have to leave the source in the repo for 3 years or something?
> 
> Don't confuse a written offer to provide source code with availability
> of a binary.
> 
> In short, anyone who has already downloaded the application can get a
> hold of the source code, and the details of how they can do that are in
> the licence file they should have gotten with the binary.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 
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