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Date:      Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:12:54 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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:  <20020131091254.GA61188@student.uu.se>
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:
> Peter Wemm wrote:
> > > 1)    You risk becoming the compiler maintainer for 2
> > >       years, in order to comply with the license.
> > 
> > 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

You seem to have misunderstood the GPL.

Section 3 says that if you give somebody a GPL'd binary you must also
do *one* of a) b) and c) where b) is an offer valid for at least 3
years to supply the source on demand.

But you can just do a), which means supply the source together with the
binary.  Then you have no further obligations.






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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se

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