Re: Who puts the Windows binaries on the FTP server?

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 19:19:30 +1030,
>   Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org> wrote:
> 
>>Dave Page wrote:
>><snip>
>>
>>>Doens't matter. The GPL requires that the source be made available from
>>>the same place as the binaries. Someone got pulled up on that on on the
>>>pgsql-cygwin list the other day after publicising a similar installer to
>>>yours.
>>
>>Ok.  Will download the cygwin source and the PostgreSQL-cygwin source 
>>and put it on the Techdocs site, with a link to it from the same page 
>>that refers to the PostgreSQL Cywin package, and also create a README 
>>file for the package pointing to the source as well (and put it in the 
>>FTP download directory).
> 
> Are you sure you need to do that? Shouldn't you just have to provide source
> to the gnu programs you are including?

Probably, but it seems a more time efficient approach just to download 
the whole lot, tar it up, and provide links to it.  It's all BSD or GPL, 
so there's no stress in doing that.

:)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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