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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 01:27:05 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Philip Dodd <smpcomputing@free.fr>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UnitedLinux violating GPL?
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On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:45:34PM +0100, Philip Dodd wrote:

> With all due respect, I believe that the terms of the GPL only require 
> them to make it available to people who have the binaries, and only then 
> upon request.
>...

Why don't you _read_ the GPL instead of making wrong statements?

Section 3 clearly states that your "upon request" is wrong, the part 
that matches here is:

    b) 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,

 
> Cheers,
> 
> Philip

cu
Adrian

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