Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-23,: Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Re: ABIT -- GENTUS Linux Steals GPL CODE AGAIN!!

# Re: [LINUX-ABIT] Re: ABIT -- GENTUS Linux Steals GPL CODE AGAIN!!

Stephen Frost (sfrost@ns.snowman.net)
Wed, 7 Jun 2000 18:07:55 -0400 (EDT)

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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.
>
> > 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

Perhaps it doesn't. One could offer to ship the source in the exact
same medium the binary is shipped in at cost. The point is that source code
does not *have* to be shipped with the binary, it just has to be made
availible at cost to whomever the binary is made availible to.

Stephen

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