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Re: [OT] open source distribution



Hi!

On Fri Aug 29, 2003 at 09:45:01PM +0200, Henning Moll wrote:
> So, the big question is: What does distribute mean? For example:
> 
> A system administrator writes a little handy perl script using some
> gpl'd perl libraries (as mentioned in the gpl-faq, this is linking,
> and therefore, the new tool can only be distributed under the gpl...).
> But the adiminstrator doesn't intend to distribute, he only install it
> on a machine used by many clients/users.
> 
> One day, a nosy client find the tool useful and send it out to the
> internet...
> 
> Hmmm, what now?

Maybe this[1] can help.

So long
Thomas

  1. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCInternalDistribution

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