[Arm-netbook] EOMA68-A20 now booting Linaro distro from uSD card

[Philip Hands]

joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> writes:

...
> To recap, I released a binary and left exact links and exact version
> numbers to recreate it as well as exact details of tools and where to
> get it.

Did you? -- where?

As I understood it you released a binary without the supporting
complete description of how it was built -- if that's a misunderstanding
on my part then I think it's also a misunderstanding shared by pretty
much everyone else that's been contributing to this thread.

If you did have full details published from the start, then fine.

If not, and it's an oversight that you've since corrected, then while
that means that you were technically in violation of the GPL, if it's
fixed now then that seems to resolve that, and I cannot see anyone
making a fuss.

If it's still the case that you have images with no associated sources,
and without a complete description of what versions of what you combined
in what way, then you're still in violation.

If you really want to do this one-man-forked-distribution thing, then
you still need to make sure that the images are supplied with a written
offer to provide that source for three years, or you can do the combined
media idea, but since you appear to be doing neither _yet_ you're still
violating the GPL (unless we're all misinterpreting what you've done,
as stated above).

Feel free to point out the place where you published the "exact details"
so that we can all go "Ah, jolly good, well done" and allow this thread
to die as it surely deserves.

If on the other hand you mean things like:

  git checkout origin/sunxi-3.4

as "exact details" then sadly, you are a missing the point.

That's a bit like saying you built a circuit with a component found in a
particular parts bin in a particular warehouse, which makes some sort of
sense but ignores the fact that depending on which day you picked that
part, you might have got one from different batch with different
spec. from what's in the same bin today, depending on what the person
refilling the bin thought was reasonable at the time.

In that situation you'd probably need the part and serial number off the
component, and in the git situation we need the commit checksum that was
at the head of the origin/sunxi-3.4 branch when you built it, otherwise
you've not told us which source you used, and if you don't know that
you're probably not in a position to perfectly reproduce the binary
yourself, so you can hardly expect anyone else to manage it.

Cheers, Phil.
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