On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > > years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
> > > > > cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
> > >
> > > 'b' does not meet the cost rule in much of the world
>
> The one I left above. It costs me more than the cost of physically
> performing the source distribution. Try signing up for a phone line for
> 8 hours and having it removed again...
BT will do this quite happily if you want. They just relieve you of all
your worldly goods in exchange. (So how does this differ from their normal
service, I wonder?...)
> The whole ftp is/is not distribution thing is unclear though. Currently since
> the internet extends to a tiny percentage of people it doesnt appear to be
> suitable to claim it meets the needs
If I am distributing the hypothetical binary image over the Net, though,
is it not sufficient for me to link to the source tarballs I used?
Actually, I suspect an offer to e-mail the kernel source to anyone, in
exchange for them paying the resultant phone bill (at 8p/min on a 28.8K
modem, of course) would technically fulfil the requirements of "b"; I
received a browser and SSL support by e-mail just a few weeks ago.
There are a couple of areas where the GPL needs some updates, particularly
where the Net is concerned, I think. RMS is, apparently, updating it,
which is good - but he's doing so behind closed doors without public
feedback or contributions, which isn't.
James.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Jun 15 2000 - 21:00:17 EST