Timeline for How is the GPL3 for GNU coreutils satisfied when I pull a docker image?
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| Jan 15, 2022 at 7:09 | comment | added | Kevin | Frankly, this isn't that hard to cure. All you have to do is tar up the source code for all the stuff you put into the container, and provide one giant tarball as a separate download. You don't have to make the tarball easy to use, you don't even have to provide clear labeling of where it all came from (beyond the bare minimum of preserving copyright notices), and there is no prohibition against putting a "fair warning: this tarball is completely terrible and useless" notice on the download web page. You can't obfuscate the source, but nobody said you have to organize it sensibly. | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 9:02 | comment | added | MadHatter♦ | @LudwigSchulze I agree there's no difference between container images and SD images in terms of licensing; the difference is in the justification for their use in the first place. Containers are a very poor format for software distribution to general-purpose computers, and this question beautifully showcases one of the many reasons for that. SD card images, on the other hand, actually have some point to them, such that the very considerable attendant licensing issues are worth confronting. | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 8:53 | comment | added | Ludwig Schulze | Thanks for the opinion. It seems one can interpret compliance by relying on benevolent interpretations of the terms "clear" and "next to". I do not see a difference between docker and sd card images in terms of licensing. The advice on starting from a clearly compliant base image may be good if there were any candidates. I think I will just add a post-build step that downloads any source packages provided by debian for the .deb packages in my images and provide them for Download together with my SD card images. For docker images the safest way seems to be to include these sources in the images | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 8:32 | vote | accept | Ludwig Schulze | ||
| Jan 29, 2020 at 11:10 | history | edited | MadHatter♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 28, 2020 at 12:45 | history | answered | MadHatter♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |