"designated place" in GPL

[Armijn Hemel]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:53:34AM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote:

> I wonder what the "designated place" in GPL means. I figured out OpenBSD is
> distributing my Links binary and it requires a lot of effort for someone who is
> not versed in the OpenBSD internals to find the corresponding source. Even if
> you go to the main OpenBSD website, there is nothing like a clear link to the
> sources - there are some FAQs that explain you how to download some
> multi-hundred-megabyte source packages to obtain sources of everything in the
> OpenBSD system. When I asked on the mailing list they pulled out some magic
> ftp:// URL that contained the Links source.

The OpenBSD ports system is not that hard.

http://www.openbsd.org/ports.html

Binaries are on the FTP site, or a mirror, for example:

ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/i386/

> I don't like this because I wanted to find a source for another package
> (netpbm) and after some time of search effort I stuck helpless.
> 
> Does "designated place" mean the directory/HTML page where the binary is
> stored, or does it mean the whole website?

As far as I know they download "vanilla" sources from the original website.

armijn

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