src.rpm/specfile, GPL violation

[Steve Bostedor]

Rex,

The format that the source is to be delivered in is not covered by the
GPL.  They do supply the source to VNC and anyone can get it at any
time.  It's a very simple download.  Just because it's not packaged in
the archive format that you prefer doesn't meant that it's not easily
available to you.

Here's a link in case you can't find it:

http://www.realvnc.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi

Steve Bostedor
http://www.vncscan.com

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Rex Dieter
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 10:17 AM
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: src.rpm/specfile, GPL violation
> 
> I've been patiently waiting for a response from RealVNC 
> regarding the (un)availability of an rpm specfile and/or 
> src.rpm for linux, since my 
> originally post here on April 29.   I only wanted to see how it was 
> built, as I've issues with a home-brewed rpm version of 
> mine(1) which are apparently not present in RealVNC's binary rpm(2).
> 
> RealVNC is violating the GPL (unknowningly or not) by failing 
> to provide the (preferred) source to the binary they distribute.
> 
> -- Rex
> 
> 
> (1) When built against XFree86-4.3, it fails to build the 
> vnc.so X loadable module.  When built against xorg-x11-6.8.1, 
> the vnc.so loadable module builds, but crashes X when logging 
> in as non-root.
> 
> (2) Unfortunately, RealVNC's binary rpm cannot be installed on my
> xorg-x11-6.8.1 system due to it's linkage against a very old 
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