Re: Proposed: Debian's Five Freedoms for Free Works

[Dylan Thurston <dpt@math.harvard.edu>]

In article <[🔎] 8765n9zo67.fsf@andy.gregorykjohnson.com>, Gregory K.Johnson wrote:
> ... But B needn't disclose this offer; B could intentionally make
> itself ineligible to transfer A's offer by conducting its own
> distribution commercially; ...

I'm not sure what you're getting at, but under the terms of the GPL, B
is not allowed to distribute object code at all without fulfilling one
of the conditions of clause 3.

The one (minor) bug (in which some recipient of object code might not
have full access to the source) is if A gives B the object code, with
a written offer; B waits for nearly 3 years, and then passes on the
object code together with the offer.

But I have no idea what this is relevant to.

Peace,
	Dylan