Re: [OT] open source distribution

From: Arnt Karlsen (arnt_at_c2i.net)
Date: 08/30/03

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    Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:50:17 +0200
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    On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 08:22:45 +0200,
    "Stefan Waidele jun." <Stefan@Waidele.net> wrote in message
    <3F5042B5.6080605@Waidele.net>:

    > Arnt Karlsen wrote:
    > > On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:17:47 +0200,
    > > "Stefan Waidele jun." <Stefan@Waidele.net> wrote in message
    > > <3F4FD10B.6020309@Waidele.net>:
    > >
    > >>Arnt Karlsen wrote:
    > >>
    > >>>On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:09:10 -0500,
    > >>>Alex Malinovich <demonbane@the-love-shack.net> wrote in message
    > >>><1062176950.18712.2.camel@Thief>:
    > >>>
    > >>>>[...]
    > >>>>I have a few dozen small programs that I've tacked a GPL notice
    > >>>>onto just in case, yet that have never ventured off of my hard
    > >>>>disk because they are one half step above being absolutely broken,
    > >>>>and definitely not ready for prime-time. :)
    > >>>
    > >>>..boooo, your practice here is in violation with the GPL;
    > >>
    > >>No, it's not:
    > >>http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPubl
    > >>ic
    > >>
    > >>This faq should pretty much answer the question brought up in this
    > >>thread.
    > >
    > > ..it _is_, it says: "But if you release the modified version to the
    > > public in some way, the GPL requires you to make the modified source
    > > code available to the program's users, under the GPL." ;-)
    >
    > But he does not release it. He wrote the software, and he keeps it for
    > himself on his harddisk. (He does not even need to put a comment in
    > like /* This stuff is GLP'd */, since nobody gets the program)

    ..correct, if nobody gets it, noboby uses it. If Emmas client gets
    it, Emmas client also needs access to the source under the GPL.
     
    > <promise>This is my last post to the list on this topic,</promise>

    ..I got this message twice, which one promise applies, Stefan? ;-) 

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