Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 22:29:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co, gsutter@pobox.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPL *again* (was: New CODA release) Message-ID: <199902082229.PAA02958@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19990208125530.X86778@freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Feb 8, 99 12:55:30 pm
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> It was the standard compiler for OSF/1, so there's a good chance it is > for Digital UNIX as well. And there's nothing in the GPL that says > you must be forced to carry sources, just supply them (for a price > that you can name) if somebody demands them. 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, 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, c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) > This means you can say ``OK, I'll get you the sources for $5000, 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, > or you can get them yourselves for free from ftp.gnu.org''. Presuming that they incorporate your changes in the standard distribution of whatever software you are modifying. If they don't like your changes, or don't carry them, then you have to carry them yourself. > Why do so many people blow this GPL issue out of proportion? There's > so much FUD about it that you'd think somebody has a hidden agenda. Including the FUD that comes from reading the Preamble and not the license itself? 8-). http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html (Legally excerpted for educational purposes). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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