From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Philip Dodd <smpcomputing@free.fr>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UnitedLinux violating GPL?
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 01:27:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030110002705.GZ6626@fs.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E1DFB8E.9050805@free.fr>
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:45:34PM +0100, Philip Dodd wrote:
> With all due respect, I believe that the terms of the GPL only require
> them to make it available to people who have the binaries, and only then
> upon request.
>...
Why don't you _read_ the GPL instead of making wrong statements?
Section 3 clearly states that your "upon request" is wrong, the part
that matches here is:
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,
> Cheers,
>
> Philip
cu
Adrian
--
"Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-10 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-09 22:27 UnitedLinux violating GPL? Jeff Garzik
2003-01-09 22:45 ` Philip Dodd
2003-01-10 0:27 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2003-01-10 0:36 ` Cort Dougan
2003-01-10 2:40 ` John Jasen
2003-01-10 2:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-10 19:05 ` Samuel Flory
2003-01-09 22:53 ` Cort Dougan
2003-01-09 23:00 ` Tom Sightler
2003-01-09 23:06 ` GertJan Spoelman
2003-01-09 23:19 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-01-09 23:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-10 10:38 ` Pavel Machek
2003-01-17 20:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-09 23:45 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2003-01-09 22:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-10 1:22 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2003-01-10 0:31 ` Aaron T Porter
2003-01-10 8:34 ` Hubert Mantel
2003-01-10 10:46 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-01-11 10:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-10 10:55 ` Horst von Brand
2003-01-10 12:19 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-01-11 16:34 ` Horst von Brand
2003-01-11 19:27 ` David Woodhouse
2003-01-12 13:15 ` Hubert Mantel
2003-01-12 16:50 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-13 13:12 ` Dave Jones
2003-01-12 13:23 ` Horst von Brand
2003-01-11 10:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-11 11:00 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-11 14:46 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-10 12:25 Nicholas Berry
[not found] <20030109224013$6e5e@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20030111110011$3252@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-01-11 11:51 ` Andi Kleen
2003-01-11 14:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-11 14:44 ` Andi Kleen
2003-01-11 20:34 Protasevich, Natalie
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