Re: Binary Version for Mac OS X?

[Warren Young]

herb wrote:
> Would it break any rules, such as the fact
> that the Mac OS X "Installer" program is proprietary software?  Even
> though Installer is proprietary software, the package is not software
> at all, and installer is just opening it.  Or is there not allowed to
> be any proprietary software in the equation at all?

Anyone who makes an argument that this is not allowed needs to explain 
why it's okay to place GNU software onto an NTFS disk partition.  The 
GPL has nothing to say about the data formats you use to store the 
software.  An OS X .pkg file isn't even opaque, except artificially in 
Finder: it's just a specially formatted directory structure.  The 
packaged files are in my.pkg/Contents/Resources, IIRC.

What _does_ matter, however, is that your .pkg file needs to include a 
copy of the sources you used to build the binary, or at least some kind 
of link or contact information for obtaining the sources.