On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:26:57AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Could people please comment on > http://master.debian.org/~joey/legal.en.html > I plan to add this to http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ and would > like the advice to be correct. Mentioning option 3 at all seems misleading, IMHO. No one burning CDs from our archive receives such an offer, so it should be made clear that even non-profits cannot exercise this option. > Any entity that distributes binary-only Debian CDs or images has to > provide CDs or images with the matching source code on demand. If no > source CDs are provided regularily the easiest way to fulfil this > requirement is to burn a CD and store it in a shelf. When somebody > requests the source code, this can be fulfilled with a manually burned > copy. Providing CDs "on demand" only satisfies the GPL if the distributor included a written offer. If there's no written offer, the source has to be provided up front. The explanatory text doesn't emphasize this enough, IMHO -- as we all know, there are people who won't read (or understand, perhaps) the license text, even when excerpted for them. ;) Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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