On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:45:34PM +0100, Philip Dodd wrote:
> With all due respect, I believe that the terms of the GPL only require
> them to make it available to people who have the binaries, and only then
> upon request.
>...
Why don't you _read_ the GPL instead of making wrong statements?
Section 3 clearly states that your "upon request" is wrong, the part
that matches here is:
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,
> Cheers,
>
> Philip
cu
Adrian
--"Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
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