Re: Gow, Cygwin alternative refers to GNU programs as open source UNIX tools

[Jean Louis]

* Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> [2020-10-29 07:55]:
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>   > Nowadays, distributions don't ship copies of the tarballs; the 
>   > mainstream
>   > practice is for build scripts to download tarballs from the original
>   > upstream locations, or else mirrors, and then cache them locally.
> 
> Unless they are careful, they can violate the GPL that way.

I am not getting your statement.

When source is modifiedm, enhanced, improved, dehanced, the modified
version of source shall be provided to requester, not the original
which modifier used to make a modified version of program.

Jean