Re: Availability of source code (Was: Re: OFF TOPIC about GPL enforcement (Was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice))

Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton
> <dennis.hamilton@acm.org> wrote:
>   
> > Ignoring the repetition on who is entitled to source code and how they are told about it, I would 
> > like to know the answers to some very specific, tangible matters closer to home.  My question is 
> > basically whether the terms of a GPL license attached to a software distribution are applicable to 
> > that software distribution, not just downstream derivatives of it.  I assume the answer is yes.
> >
> >  - Dennis
> >
> > WHY I ASK
> >
> > I have a copy of LibreOffice 3.3.2 installed on my computer.  I am looking for any place that I am 
> > offered access to the specific (or, indeed, any) source code for the LibreOffice 3.3.2 distribution 
> > that I have installed (en-win-x86).
> >
> >     
>
> Admittedly, I never checked the UI text as to where you can get the
> source code.
>
> To build LibreOffice, I would simply follow the instructions at
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/How_to_build
> which cover different operating systems.
>
> By following the instructions, you create a local "repository" of the
> source code,
> and this repository has *all* versions of LibreOffice (such as 3.3.2
> and 3.4.0) and you can select which to build.
> It should take you a few hours of downloading + compilation to create
> your own LibreOffice.
> If you have a fast Internet speed and a good computer, it should take
> you about 3 hours of compilation.
>
> Your question is actually about whether we can make the Help→License
> information more informative
> so that users who would like to build LibreOffice, will get directed
> to the How_to_build page.
>   
I had no trouble finding and downloading source code, it is posted right 
there on the download site.  Actually I downloaded it purely for 
curiosity, I am not qualified to write code in C++ , but I looked at it 
using Notepad.  In that form, it is basically just gibberish, perhaps 
you have to have a copy of the C++ programming language on your computer 
in order to see it in an intelligible form, but at least I know that I 
succeeded in getting the source of part of the Writer module.

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