On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Certainly for non commercial cases.
Unfortunately, that isn't what the GPL says. Hopefully, v3 will do...
> > 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.
>
> Try that in Guyana say. The GPL applies beyond the western world. Obvioously
> FTP downloaded code implies source download is sane but shipping binary CD
> saying 'download the source' clearly only works for subsets of the planet
I think the requirement should be more like "the source must be available
in the same form as the binary at a cost no greater than the physical cost
of supplying the copy". The current version says that I must offer to give
any third party ... - just saying "You can get it free by doing this"
isn't complying, as it stands.
There are a couple of areas where the GPL is rather too specific about
things; hopefully this will be fixed in v3?
James.
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