[H-GEN] Kernel source

Raymond Smith raymond at humbug.org.au
Wed Oct 29 19:10:21 EST 2003


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Jason Parker-Burlingham said:
> There's some doubt about whether or not giving someone an alpha or beta
> of a work derived from a GPL-licensed one counts as distributing it or
> not.  I think it certainly does.

I agree -- such a distinction is not made within the license.

> Mandrake should not be handing out compiled binaries without also
> handing out source code.

But they do not have to do that on the same CDs/ISOs. They would
be quite within their rights to only offer the source to people
who asked, with a modest fee to cover cost of distribution.

I see no problem here, unless Mandrake is saying 'no we will
not give you the source at all'.

Cheers,

Raymond
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raymond at humbug.org.au



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