Emacs and the GPL

Posted Aug 4, 2011 12:46 UTC (Thu) by Thue (guest, #14277)
In reply to: Emacs and the GPL by juliank
Parent article: Emacs and the GPL

> The problem here being that the SVN is on a different server, maintained by the Google people. Tarballs of the source need to be provided together with the non-source, or the non-source tarballs must contain at least an offer to offer the source code if requested.

The keyword here is "same place". I would argue that since both the tarballs and svn is available from the same download page, then the source is available from the "same place". Nowhere does the GPL say that the source has to be available as a tarball.

The svn repository is administered by the smarty developer, but hosted by Google. The smarty.net webpage is also administered by the smarty developer, but perhaps actually hosted in some datacenter, or on a rented virtual server. As long as the top layer of control is the Smarty developer, then it seems good enough according to my reading of the GPL.