Hi,
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Originally Posted by dwanthny
How does this have any bearing on whether this is a GPL project? The source is there to contribute to the project or build as you wish. There is no requirement in the GPL that folks have their hand held through building
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Again, I find this response very troubling. I have never seen a GPL project that will not help volunteer developers with building and packaging issues on supported platforms (or even unsupported platforms if they are attempting a port). And I have been developing software and helping out on various projects since the late 1970s.
No one is asking for "hand-holding". If it is not immediately clear how to build a release package for Mac OS X, please include even a rough README_MacOSX.txt file that at least outlines the sequence of steps needed. Please also include any scripts of makefiles you are currently using.
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No secrecy exists here, the source is well documented and other groups have used the basic project in endeavors of there own without hand holding or knowing any secret handshake or secret code.
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Glad to hear it. So please ... if the steps on how to build and package for a specific supported platform are not already part of the source code release, please include the makefiles, scripts, or instructions that do exist for that platform ... no matter how rough ... so that others can figure things out too.
I do not think that is too much to ask for any OpenSource / GPL project.
Thank you.
KevinH