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merb on March 30, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: BMW are complying with the GPL

Most of these packages aren't modified at all? Wouldn't it be just enough to provide the Links?

cyphar on March 30, 2016 [–]

I think GPLv3 lets you just provide links to upstream mirrors if it's unmodified, but GPLv2 doesn't have such a provision.

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