From kde-devel  Thu Apr 04 13:52:17 2024
From: Harald Sitter <sitter () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:52:17 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Should we stop distributing source tarballs?
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On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 3:38=E2=80=AFPM Tobias Leupold <tl@stonemx.de> wrote=
:
>
> Am 04.04.24 um 13:25 schrieb Harald Sitter:
> > On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 12:57=E2=80=AFPM Tobias Leupold <tl@stonemx.de> =
wrote:
> >> Just what comes into my mind at once. A release is not always only a g=
it tag.
> >
> > Doesn't that make your source tarball a derived work from the source
> > in your git tag?
>
> Yes, of course! this was the point of what I wrote ...

But then it's no longer **the** source. The source was your tag.