id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
16517	What about / Whom to ask for full/missing wordpress source-code?	hakre	markjaquith	"The [http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/  wordpress software packages to download form the website] contain ''mostly'' source-code.

But as it's known, there are files and parts in these, that are binary blobs and w/o their source as specified in the terms of the GNU GPL.

According to §1, §2 and §3 of the terms [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html of the GNU GPL v2], the wordpress project must offer full source-code in order to distribute the whole package under GPL.

In §3 it's made more specific what sources are:

> The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.

I was looking over the wordpress homepage but I could not find any information where to obtain the according sources that are missing from the packages - either in full source packages or in it's additional form.

Probably I've overlooked something, please help me obtaining such information."	defect (bug)	closed	high	3.1	WordPress.org site		normal	fixed