Re: Problems in GNU FDL 1.2 Draft

[Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@rano.org>]

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@iki.fi>:

> > The GPL says you only have to _offer_ them the source.  If they
> > want it on physical media you can tell them to bring a floppy to
> > office hours; otherwise just put it on a web site.
> 
> That's not sufficient according to my reading.  There are exactly
> three choices, according to point three:
> 
>   1) I give them the source
>   2) I give them a written offer, valid for at least three years,
>      to give anybody the source
>   3) I forward such a written offer I myself received to them.
> 
> Number three is not available most of the time.

I would have thought that in this situation you could get away with
putting the source on a web site and telling the students to download
it within a few days. That way they have been given the source.

Edmund