Do download sites violate GNU GPL programs?

[David Woolley]

Lior W. wrote:
> Googling
> "download virtualdub" -site:virtualdub.sourceforge.net -site:virtualdub.org
> currently leads to 22,300 search results.

If they are on sourceforge, but not providing source, tell sourceforge, 
and they will almost certainly pull the package.  For most packages on 
sourceforge, if you choose download you get only the sources.
> 
> Besides, VirtualDub is just a random example. Download sites pretty much 
> never host licenses. This means whenever they host GNU GPL programs, 
> they're likely to violate them (unless the author manually included the 
> source code inside the binaries' archive).
> 


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