Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] GPL Issues surrounding Mepis and the can of worms he opened.

[hanumizzle <han...@gm...>]

On 6/29/06, Tony Brijeski <tb...@gm...> wrote:

> According to both those recent issues, we are not in compliance for sure so
> what are we going to do about it?

Section 3 of the GPL has bothered me for a while:

"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:

    a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1
and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
    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,
    c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed
only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the
program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in
accord with Subsection b above.)"

I think b) would be our best choice, given that, in reality, most
people are just going to download the damn source tarball.

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