On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 01:11:45 -0700 Joe Buck wrote:
> That is, the necessity to make a written offer good for three years
> is sometimes painful,
There's no such necessity in the GNU GPL v2.
GPLv2, section 3 offers three alternative paths, only one of which
requires that you make a written offer, valid for at least three years
(see clause 3b).
If you accompany the compiled form with the complete corresponding
machine-readable source code (see clause 3a), you have no other future
obligations.
Clause 3b is the non-free option. Clause 3a is the free one.
> as is the necessity to keep a transparent copy
> available for one year.
The GFDL (v1.2) puts different requirements.
If you distribute more than 100 Opaque copies of the document, you have
two options:
* you /include/ (not accompany!) a machine-readable Transparent
copy along with each Opaque copy
* you provide a URL that must stay alive for at least one year after the
ditribution of the last Opaque copy
The second option is non-free.
The first one forces users to download the Transparent copy, even if
they don't want it. My opinion is that this is non-free too.
I do not yet fully understand what conclusions can be drawn from
GR-2006-001 results, but it seems that the Debian Project majority
disagrees with me... :-(
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:-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-)
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