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GPL doesn't require them to publish the source in git. FWIW, Google can be compliant and publish the source in Physical Medium too if they opt too. Also, the O
by devy 1mo ago
GPL doesn't require them to publish the source in git. FWIW, Google can be compliant and publish the source in Physical Medium too if they opt too.
Also, the OP did mentioned that Google also squashed the git commit to a single commit for whatever reason.
- mikestorrent 1mo agoCan't wait for pallets of paper to get shipped out to comply maliciously
- mjg59 1mo agoThe license requires that it be distributed on a medium customarily used for software interchange, and I don't think you'd stand a good chance of arguing that paper satisfies that.
- exe34 1mo agoFloppy disks.
- mjg59 1mo ago1) floppy disks are not customarily used for software interchange - where they are still used (aircraft software updates, bits of San Francisco's streetcar infrastructure) it's weird enough to be remarked upon. 2) the cost to Google of finding enough working floppies and paying someone to dump that much code onto them, then mailing them out, then having the other end just say "disk 323 was corrupted by USPS X rays, please send again" 20 times, would massively outweigh the benefits of making this awkward
- eru 1mo agoMostly agreed. However you can solve the problem of having x% of disks corrupted via error correcting codes. It's what Google already does for their own internal storage: when you own millions of hard disks, some of them will inevitably fail.
- buzer 1mo agoGoogle Drive is customarily used for software interchange?
- mjg59 1mo agoMy personal website isn't customarily used for software interchange, but http is. I think getting into discussions about which websites are acceptable and which aren't feels like a bad place.
- anonzzzies 1mo agoUnfortunately, I know more than a few companies who do that. The same kind of developer who used SourceSafe to just checkout the entire project (thus locking it) while busy with it. And then pop a intranetcrm_200826_0713.zip on SharePoint. Enough of them around still unfortunately.
- uniq7 1mo agoThat would be trivial to DDoS
- rpdillon 1mo agoNo, both sections a and b of part 3 of GPLv2 specify it should be machine readable. Would be interesting to see the court case where they argued the printed sheets machine need a bulb because of OCR!