Re: [Fink-beginners] Scribus.app from Fink packages

[Kevin W. <ke...@wo...>]

Hmmmm...didn't think of that. You have a point. I suppose I'll just 
wrap this up for my own use--a good learning experience if nothing 
else. Thanks for the advice.


On Mar 30, 2004, at 6:02 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Kevin Walzer wrote:
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>> Some guy has put together an application bundle of Gimp (Gimp.app) 
>> based on the Fink packages. Basically, he wrote a shell script, used 
>> Platypus to create an application wrapper, then bundled in the Gimp 
>> binaries and all dependencies. I'm trying to do the same thing with 
>> Scribus 1.1.6--I modified his script a little bit, and copied over 
>> all the Scribus dependencies into the app bundle.
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>> Does anyone have any advice?
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> Here is another advice: If you don't just make this for yourself, but 
> want to distribute it, read the GPL carefully. I just had a look at 
> the gimp-app sourceforge project, which is probably what you meant 
> above. IANAL, but to me it looks like this guy is in flagrant 
> violation of the GPL. In order to comply, he would be forced to 
> distribute not only the sources of all of the included libraries, but 
> also all the corresponding Fink info and patch files and probably the 
> sources of the whole basic Fink system that is used to compile the 
> binaries he is distributing. Vague links to URLs that contain similar 
> sources are not enough. You have to distribute sources that allow 
> everyone else to compile exactly the same thing that you are 
> distributing. The fact that something is free software doesn't 
> automatically mean you can distribute binaries made from it as you 
> like.
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