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Re: Web application licenses



On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:34:27PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> However, you didn't respond to the fact that you are allowed to
> recoup your costs; does that affect your argument that a requirement to
> distribute source is excessively burdensome?

There's a fair cost involved in just keeping the source around; if I made a
quick mod to the software and rebuilt, I don't necessarily want to have the
whole source distribution (think kernel or X) hanging around clogging up my
hard drive.

I can only recoup the cost if someone requests a copy, otherwise it's a sunk
cost; but I have to keep the source around just in case.  Unless the
original licensors are willing to cover that cost for me?  No?  I didn't
think so.  In that case I'm out the money.  Probably not a lot of money
(unless I had to buy a new HDD or tape drive because all these copies of
huge source tarballs filled up my available space).

- Matt

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