Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Jan 2003 01:27:05 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: UnitedLinux violating GPL? |
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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
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