Re: open source distribution
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 03:26:30 +0100,
Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
<[🔎] 20030830022630.GK4369@pigeon.pigeonloft>:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:57:05PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:05:14 -0400,
> > David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org> wrote in message
> > <[🔎] 87bru8fl85.fsf@everett.mit.edu>:
> >
> > > [1] I've run into a fair bit of GPL'd PalmOS software. While free
> > > software is well and good, the main way handheld software seems to
> > > get shared is by IR beaming -- which is binary-only, so I think
> > > the GPL effectively prevents me from sharing, say, OpenChess this
> > > way.
> >
> > ..huh??? You can't IR-beam source as text files between these toys?
>
> Perhaps the toy-ness is the issue - not enough storage for the source?
>
> Surely it would be good enough to distribute the binary along with a
> URL from which the source is available? After all, this is effectively
> what I'm doing if I give someone a set of Debian CDs.
..I would agree, as you point your "someone" to that url, they
_have_ access to the source at their own discretion, you don't
have to stuff it down their throat, just to make it available.
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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best case, worst case, and just in case.
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