Re: Knoppix and GPL
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 01:39:32AM -0400, Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> wrote...
>
> I believe that the Knoppix CD is violating the GPL by not distributing
> source code to GPL packages that they distribute. In particular, I looked
> at http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html#license and found the
> following text:
To my knowledge Klaus Knopper has repeatedly stated that he would send
the source to anyone if they sent him the needed number of blank CD-Rs.
IMHO that's a reasonable way to distribute source, though slightly
inconvenient. The blank CD-Rs would be the "cost of physically performing
source distribution".
Also the source to stuff knoppix has modified can be found at
http://www.knopper.net/download/knoppix/
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