From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 17:46:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1370C106566B for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:46:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com) Received: from mail.r-bonomi.com (ns2.r-bonomi.com [204.87.227.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE948FC17 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:46:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from bonomi@localhost) by mail.r-bonomi.com (8.14.3/rdb1) id o22HkD9i000471; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:46:13 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:46:13 -0600 (CST) From: Robert Bonomi Message-Id: <201003021746.o22HkD9i000471@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: ertr1013@student.uu.se, m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: selling freebsd cd for profit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:46:23 -0000 > From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Feb 28 06:00:33 2010 > Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:59:56 +0000 > From: Matthew Seaman > To: Erik Trulsson > Cc: freebsd-questions > Subject: Re: selling freebsd cd for profit > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 28/02/2010 11:43:42, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > The difference is that when you just give a link to a well-known site > > you have no guarantees that they will keep the source for that > > particular version of the software in question for as long as needed. > > Uh -- so what? Until the download site disappears, there's no problem. > If it does disappear, then /obviously/ you have to make alternative > arrangements. But that is a bridge that doesn't need to be crossed > until you've reached it. NOT so. The difference _is_ that people who got the software 'before' the download site disappeared have _only_ that download site as the reference for 'where to go' to get the source. Either you (the distributor) maintain a download site yourself -- so you can guarantee that the reference you give out _will_ be good/valid for the required time after the last copy of the code you gave out, *OR* you have to maintain a list of -everyone- who got your code -- directly or *indirectly* (this is the hard part, it _is_ freely redistributable, how do you know who it was RE-distributed to?) -- so that, if/when the 'well known' site stops carrying the source, you can notify *everybody* where the 'new' download site is. If the place where you 'told' someone they could find source-code disappears before the expiration of the required time, then you _are_ in violation of the license, even if the disappearance of that site was 'through no fault of your own'. The fact that said source-code is available 'somewhere else' does *NOT* mitigate the violation of the license terms.