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Re: Give Out Just Binary CDS [was: Paying CD vendors for freebies]



renfro@tntech.edu wrote:
> And from a GPL morality standpoint, there's nothing in the GPL that says
> one *has* to give away the source right then, right there, and at zero
> cost. Even the FSF sells some fairly expensive CDs of the stuff that's
> available via ftp.

However, you will have to give them a written offer, valid for at least
three years, to supply the source at cost if anyone asks for it.

The FSF makes money from selling CDs of their archive, but I'd be
surprised if they sold any without source.

Richard Braakman


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