Re: [Winmerge-development] Distributing winmerge with commercial application

Vinay Gandhi wrote:
> Thank you for your reply and suggestion.
>
> Please suggest if we are violating any rules (including GPL) by doing the followings:
>
> 1. Take the zip binaries available from WinMerge website
> 2. Take TortoiseIDiff from TortoiseSVN installer
> 3. Take xdocdiff + xdoc2txt winmerge plugin from http://freemind.s57.xrea.com/xdocdiffPlugin/en/index.html
> 4. Package all the above three components into one zip file
> 5. Host this newly created zip file on our website for people to use with links to winmerge, tortoise and freemind websites
> 6. Our installer will ask user to download this newly created zip file if user wishes to do so. This installer page will explain
> that these applications are under GPL.

You also must provide a link on that installer page which points to the
source code of those GPL applications. The GPL states that users must be
able to get the source from the same place/page where they get the
binaries. Since your users will only see that installer page, you have
to put the links to the sourcecode there as well.

> 7. If user choose to download, we will unzip these applications into our program folder.
> 8. User also has a choice to download this zip file themselves and configure them manually.

The rest looks ok.

Stefan

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