On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:15:35 -0400 Arc Riley wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it>wrote: > > > It says that I must offer "an opportunity to receive the Corresponding > > Source of [my] version by providing access to the Corresponding Source > > from a network server at no charge". > > There's no indication that I can delay this opportunity at will, as in > > "yes, to get source click here, but maybe you have to come back > > tomorrow". > > > If you setup a system which required a delay, that would be questionable. I am not talking about an intentional delay. I am talking about something like the following scenario: the source-hosting server goes down, while I am on vacation on another continent with intermittent access to Internet. My personal copy of the source is on my home computer which is down with the plug pulled off. My vacation has just begun and is going to last, say, five weeks[1]. On my first Internet connection I receive an e-mail message of a user (which is also one of the original authors of the network application I modified!) who informs me that he/she could not download the source of the modified network application. Clearly, I am *not* going to immediately come back to the airport and take the first flight home, in order to re-upload the source to another server as soon as possible. Am I failing to comply with the license? [...] > However, if the source is temporarily unavailable not by your intention or > fault, then so long as you make a reasonable attempt to make it available > (ie, somebody emails you to let you know the source server has been down, it > doesn't come right back up, and you upload it to another server) you're > still in compliance. This is *your* (permissive) interpretation of the license. It holds for works that are copyrighted by you. Will other copyright holders agree with your interpretation, though? Is there an official statement by the FSF that this is the intended interpretation of the AfferoGPLv3? If such statement existed, it would, at least, imply that this is the "official" interpretation... [1] I wish I could really have such long and distant vacations! ;-) -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/index.html#nanodocs The nano-document series is here! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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