Hi, Am Sa, den 24.04.2004 schrieb Walter Landry um 18:09: > > 6. c. If the items are not available to the general public, and the > > initial developer of the Software requests a copy of the items, > > then you must supply one. > To be more concrete, this fails the desert island test. If I make > modifications, then I have to give the initial developer a copy, even > if I am physically unable to do so. This differs from the "give > source if you give binaries" clause of the GPL, because if you can > give binaries then it is probably not too difficult to give source. I thought about that, but then I thought: "If [..] requests" - the desert island guy can't be requested. But then, he might: cloud painting, morse-earth-quakes, message-in-a-bottle... Seems to be a corner case, and I have not yet an opinion on that. nomeata -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: joachimbreitner@amessage.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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