[OT] some weird GPL licensing questions
Roger Larsson
roger.larsson at norran.net
Mon Feb 9 23:47:37 GMT 2004
On Monday 09 February 2004 23.11, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> I bet you can even give someone a binary, and a written offer saying that
> you will ship the sources in paper for the cost (about USD 7000 for KDE
> is my guess ;-)
GPL chapter 3
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
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...
Yes, you may OCR the print out, but you would have a hard time to argue that
it is machine-readable (you will need a very good OCR...)
/RogerL
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Roger Larsson
Skellefteå
Sweden
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