Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Solaris 2.6 and Linux | Date | 29 Sep 1997 01:59:42 GMT |
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Followup to: <199709290113.SAA25299@connectnet1.connectnet.com> By author: Darin Johnson <darin@connectnet.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > And a very large number of our customers don't have ftp access.... > the "just put it up for ftp" doesn't cut it (why not just say "get > it from prep.ai.mit.edu and don't bug us?). >
Note that the GPL doesn't say you have to give it to them in the form most convenient for them. It says you have to give it on a medium commonly used for software exchange.
> (then I'm tempted to ask, what if the company is out of business in > less than three years, or the person that knows the details is no > longer at the company? Can you ship the source in EBCDIC if the > customer can't read it?)
Yes, *if* that is what you use ("The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.") The GPL does *not* mean you have to handhold the customer through making your source code work.
Disclaimer: this is not legal advice.
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