Re: The current rules for making Emacs binaries available on the net?

[David Reitter]

On May 14, 2010, at 6:51 PM, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> 
> Now if someone distributes unpatched binaries built from Emacs sources
> is it then enough to tell from where this sources can be downloaded
> and what revision number the checkout had?

Apart from the GPL, what is also important is to support the sustainability of 
the project by animating people to write code and contribute patches.

In my experience, binary distributions are not necessarily productive in that 
sense.  It is important to make it dead-easy for people to install the source 
distribution and build from it.  Pre-requesites should be spelled out, a 
standard build system and sequence (./configure; make; make install) used, and 
so on.

Fulfilling the GPL is just a minimum requirement.