Re: Some question in regard to Lindows
Okay, I see my confusion:
> 3b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
> years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of
> physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable
> copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the
> terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for
> software interchange; or,
which I was reading as:
> 3b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
> years, to give TO any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of
****
Let the lawyers feast... (fester?).
best,
-tony
>>>>> "nick" == Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon-computing.com> writes:
nick> On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 10:39 am, A.J. Rossini wrote:
>>>> Incorrect. The GPL requires that you *either* provide sources
>>>> immediately, *or* provide
>>>> a written offer to do so. If you provide the written offer then you
>>>> must provide source not
>>>> only to the person(s) to whom you provided the binaries and the
>>>> original offer, but also
>>>> to *ANY THIRD PARTY*.
>>
>> who has a copy of the written offer.
nick> Nope. Section 3b of the GPL just says "any third party". Which
nick> evidently includes those
nick> in possession of the written offer...
nick> I guess the rationale is something along the lines that they must
nick> provide source to any
nick> third party who might conceivably have had a copy of the written offer
nick> passed on to them
nick> by the original recipient, and that that effectively means "any third
nick> party".
nick> Cheers,
nick> Nick
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