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Date:      Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:46:22 -0500
From:      Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, Dallas De Atley <deatley@apple.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: __P macro question
Message-ID:  <20020131034622.GA63522@electricjellyfish.net>
In-Reply-To: <3C58BC92.44F5ED37@mindspring.com>
References:  <20020131025121.308C13A9A@overcee.wemm.org> <3C58BC92.44F5ED37@mindspring.com>

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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 07:40:02PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > Nope.  Nobody says you have to maintain it.  Besides, FreeBSD isn't going
> > to run on any system so obscure that it wont have some sort of ansi
> > compiler available any time in the forseeable future.
> 
> Oops; three years, not two.  Please read section 3(b) of the GPL
> at:
> 
> 	http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
> 

distributing source code is not the same as maintaining it.  the
section you're refering to is:

"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,"

this doesn't say anything other than you have to provide the source
code.  i fail to see how you get 'maintain' from this.

-garrett

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