RE: standalone application distribution

[a b]

Thank you for your response.  There is not currently any sort of space
issue so your suggestion of including the source is probably a good idea. 
I appreciate the feedback as I wish to make sure that if I distribute anything
that it is done correctly.
 

> Subject: Re: standalone application distribution
> From: richardfrithmacdonald@gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 08:17:56 +0000
> CC: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> To: a_bright2@hotmail.com
>
>
> On 4 Jan 2014, at 05:39, a b <a_bright2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > After having successfully gotten a GNUstep application to run on Win7 where
> > no GNUstep is installed (reference #1), I am now attempting to perform a cleanup
> > which will result in something which could be distributed to a Windows user who
> > has not installed GNUstep.
> >
> > According to the "Introduction to GNUstep" (reference #2) at www.gnustep.org,
> > the GNUstep libraries are covered under the GNU Lesser (Library) Public License
> > while the stand-alone tools in GNUstep are under the standard GPL.
> > SystemPreferences confirms this in the info panel as follows:
> > SystemPreferences
> > GNUstep System Preferences
> > Release: 1.2.0
> > Authors: Riccardo Mottola
> > Enrico Sersale <enrico@fibernet.ro>
> > http://www.gnustep.org/experience/systempreferences.htm
> > Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > Released under the GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
> > Current theme: WinUXTheme
> >
> > SystemPreferences appears to be composed of the following executable
> > and associated files:
> > Directory SystemPreferences
> > Size Name
> > 6,613 GNUstep.conf (*** added since GNUstep is not installed ***)
> > <DIR> Resources
> > 247,017 SystemPreferences.exe
> > Directory SystemPreferences\Resources
> > Size Name
> > <DIR> English.lproj
> > 723 Info-gnustep.plist
> > 306 SystemPreferences.desktop
> > 9,662 SystemPreferences.ico
> > 9,530 SystemPreferences.tiff
> >
> > Directory SystemPreferences\Resources\English.lproj
> > <DIR> SystemPreferences.gorm
> > Directory SystemPreferences\Resources\English.lproj\SystemPreferences.gorm
> > Size Name
> > 426 data.classes
> > 184 data.info
> > 2,511 objects.gorm
> >
> > Based upon the answers I received to my earlier questions
> > I believe that it is permitted to distribute just these files in a
> > standalone package with the necessary GNUstep .dlls and configuration
> > files. Based upon previous discussion, I believe that this would fall under
> > binary distribution so no distribution of the source code would be necessary.
> > Also no modification was made to any of the GNUstep or SystemPreferences
> > files which I feel would also negate the need for distribution of the source.
> >
> > Would anyone care to comment on this, and if any of this would require source code
> > distribution please point out the relevant parts?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> Obviously if you haven't modified the source, there's no modified source for you to supply.
> When you are supplying some binary built from unmodified source within your package, you need to make the source available ... but that could just mean you tell people to look at the GNUstep website, so I think you are right to say you don't need to provide the source.
>
> However, the source code doesn't take a huge amount of space ... so unless there's a particular space issue that makes it impractical, I would consider it a courtesy to the end user to supply the source code as part of the package, even though you aren't obliged to do so.
>