Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL

[Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu>]

luther@debian.org writes:

>>>>> The GPL discriminates against people on
>>>>> desert islands who have a binary CD but not a source one.
>>>>
>>>>I must have missed that one. How?
>>>
>>> Because they can't give any of the contents to their washed-up
>>> companion.
>>
>>That person has either deleted his copies of the source or failed to
>>ask for them; either way, it's his own fault.  Alternately, somebody
>>upstream of him has violated the copyright by not obeying the
>>license.
>
> Well, he may have that written offer to get source copies for three year,
> don't he ?

Then his upstream didn't use the Free option for distribution; that's OK.

> And i have some doubt that if he failed to ask for them (or you where a little
> silent on the proposing of them as we often do at shows and such), that
> changes anything to the issue. You should have given them to him anyway, as
> is your obligation under the GPL.

Then let's say I did follow the license.  Then either he has them, or
he deprived himself of them.  Not my problem, or the license's.

_Brian

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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu