MPL and Source Code

[Craig Southeren]

On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 15:22:31 -0400
Anthony DeRobertis <anthony at derobert.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 08:54:53PM +1000, Craig Southeren wrote:
> 
> > A problem would only occur if there was a Debian release that contained
> > source code that is is not in the SVN archive. Does this ever occur?
> 
> Security updates and NMU's come to mind.

I'm not sure what an NMU is, but why are these not put into the SVN
archive?

Because if it is Debian policy to distribute binaries where the source
code is not guaranteed to be publically available, then yes, I think
that could be a problem regardless of whether the license is MPL or GPL.

   Craig

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