Re: open source distribution

From: Pigeon (jah.pigeon_at_ukonline.co.uk)
Date: 08/30/03

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    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. 

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