Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 05:36:14PM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> 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.
Again, sincei have been counseled that repetition is good in obtaining
attention here,
the GPL only allows for redistribution either with the 3years offer or with
the source. if you don't follow these, you are not allowed to distribute, even
if the licensee rejects the sources. Altough if you give them to him, and he
throws them away, that may be another problem.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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