[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16517: What about / Whom to ask for full/missing wordpress source-code?

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#16517: What about / Whom to ask for full/missing wordpress source-code?
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 Reporter:  hakre               |       Owner:  markjaquith
     Type:  defect (bug)        |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  high                |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  WordPress.org site  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal              |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                      |
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Comment (by chipbennett):

 I think what Mark Jaquith is suggesting to be done both demonstrates a
 recognition that the project has room for improvement regarding handling
 of swfupload.swf, and represents a reasonable solution to the issue at
 hand.

 If the wordpress.zip download provides clear indication that swfupload.swf
 is MIT licensed (including the actual copyright/license notice as required
 by the license), and the wordpress.org site hosts and offers for download
 the source files for swfupload.swf, then I am satisfied that the license
 requirements have been satisfied for both swfupload.swf and the WordPress
 package as a whole.

 I believe that offering the source files for download ''alongside'' the
 wordpress.zip file on the wordpress.org web site could be construed as
 satisfying clause a):

   '''You may copy and distribute the Program''' ... '''in object code or
 executable form''' ... '''provided that you also''' ...:

     a) '''Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
 source code''', which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1
 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange;

 Offering for download the swfupload.swf source files ''alongside the
 wordpress.zip'' file distributed on the website could certainly be
 considered to be ''accompanying'' the binary (as part of the wordpress.zip
 file) with the source files. Perhaps I am misinterpreting the license
 (wouldn't be the first time it's happened, or that I've been accused of it
 ;) ), but I think the project would be fully complying with the GPL at
 this point.

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