Re: GPL compliance

On Fri, 2006-30-06 at 16:35 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
If the user wanting the source code doesn't have access to
the internet, that's his own problem.

I disagree. If a user got Ubuntu (or any GPL software) on CD and
has no Internet, why should he be forced to buy something (Internet
access) just so that he can make use of his rights? That doesn't make
sense to me.

Indeed... the requirement on 3(a) of "medium customarily used for
software interchange" is a bit vague and fuzzy. My interpretation would
be that if you use the same medium you used for the binaries then that's
fair enough. So, if I'm distributing binaries on-line, then putting the
sources on-line on the same location would be ok. But if I'm giving you
the binaries on a CD, then the sources should be available on CD and I
expect that putting them on-line would *not* satisfy the 3(a)
requirement. But this interpretation is mostly a guess. The license text
on 3(a) really isn't very clear.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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