On 7/17/06, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> wrote:
You were perfectly right until that last sentence. If I buy a copy of the magazine, with the DVD, and it contains a written offer to provide source code for the GPL material on the DVD (thus satisfying section 3 via 3b) I can redistribute that DVD non-commercially to other parties, giving them the written offer provided by the magazine (thus satisfying section 3 via 3c). The magazine is allowed to charge at-cost for the source distribution, so as not to leave themselves out of pocket.
Correct, I forgot about 3c. Still, the point is that only purchasers or people who the purchasers have given it to non-commercially have the right to get the source at cost price. The GPL does not require anyone to give anything away for free, except the source at cost price. andrew -- Andrew Donnellan http://andrewdonnellan.com http://ajdlinux.blogspot.com Jabber - ajdlinux@jabber.org.au GPG - hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0x5D4C0C58 ------------------------------- Member of Linux Australia - http://linux.org.au Debian user - http://debian.org Get free rewards - http://ezyrewards.com/?id=23484 OpenNIC user - http://www.opennic.unrated.net