On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:57:05PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:05:14 -0400, > David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org> wrote in message > <[🔎] 87bru8fl85.fsf@everett.mit.edu>: > > > [1] I've run into a fair bit of GPL'd PalmOS software. While free > > software is well and good, the main way handheld software seems to get > > shared is by IR beaming -- which is binary-only, so I think the GPL > > effectively prevents me from sharing, say, OpenChess this way. > > ..huh??? You can't IR-beam source as text files between these toys? Perhaps the toy-ness is the issue - not enough storage for the source? Surely it would be good enough to distribute the binary along with a URL from which the source is available? After all, this is effectively what I'm doing if I give someone a set of Debian CDs. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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