[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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