From: timothy d. <mol...@ma...> - 2005-08-30 19:55:14
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On 8/30/05 (9:23 ) Egon Willighagen wrote: >On Tuesday 30 August 2005 21:16, timothy driscoll wrote: >>I am getting ready to distribute an application that uses Jmol. as >>per the licence, I am including the source code. =20 > >I don't think your binaries need to include the source code; you >*are* required to clearly state where the source code can be >downloaded, and make sure that it is downloadable whenever a >'client' requests this. > >>but... what exactly constitutes the "source code"? <snip> > >I'm quite positive that pointing to Jmol-HEAD CVS is just fine. > I trust you, Egon, to be sure. :-) and I don't mean to beat a dead horse.= but section 6 of the Jmol licence says, in part: " a) Accompany the work with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code for the Library including whatever changes were used in the work (which must be distributed under Sections 1 and 2 above); and, if the work is an executable linked with the Library, with the complete machine-readable "work that uses the Library", as object code and/or source code, so that the user can modify the Library and then relink to produce a modified executable containing the modified Library. [...] b) Use a suitable shared library mechanism for linking with the Library. [...] c) Accompany the work with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give the same user the materials specified in Subsection 6a, above, for a charge no more than the cost of performing this distribution. d) If distribution of the work is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, offer equivalent access to copy the above specified materials from the same place. e) Verify that the user has already received a copy of these materials or that you have already sent this user a copy. " part a) seems pretty clear to me: distribute the source code with the work.= I think you are saying I can just provide a link to the CVS version. wha= t am I missing here? [disclaimer to avoid misunderstanding: I agree wholeheartedly with the lice= nce requirements. I am merely trying to figure out, as a novice programmer,= what constitutes "the source code," in the interest of saving bandwidth an= d storage space for my product.] best, tim --=20 Timothy Driscoll molvisions - see, grasp, learn. <http://www.molvisions.com/> earth:usa:virginia:blacksburg "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Mar= x |