On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:38:36 +0100 Malcolm Tyrrell malcolm.r.tyrrell@gmail.com wrote:
Would this go against the terms of the GPL?"
This is just my opinion, but I've studied the GPLv2 fairly closely. According to "Section 3", for every binary release of the code, you should "make available" the corresponding source. Having the source "available for download" fulfils this under Section 3(a).
If you don't provide binaries from the latest SVN then there's no requirement to provide access to the source code via SVN. If you *do* provide binaries from the latest SVN, providing a downloadable archive, an "SVN snapshot" of the latest source code, would fulfil the requirement just as well.
In general, I don't think this policy would be a problem from a GPL perspective, but it may annoy users and potential contributors slightly.
- Cathal