Re: [Mingw-users] Good GUI debugger for MinGW?

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On 06/04/15 12:37, ralph engels wrote:
> GPL as far as i know allows a dev upto 3 years to get a patchset out 
> section 3b i believe ...

I think you are misinterpreting:

> 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
> under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
> Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the
> following:
> 
>   ...
> 
>   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, ...

That doesn't give you three years grace to come up with the source!  On
the contrary, it *requires* you to offer the source for *immediate*
distribution, and to *continue* to honour your offer to provide it for a
minimum period of three years after first publication of the binary.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.