"Joe Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As the GPL says: > > > > (2) You can give them an offer to provide the source to anyone (not > > merely your own customers) at a later date--that's you, yourself, not > > some other third party--at cost alone. > > How long is this offer valid? The GPL says "at least three years". > > A non-profit third party copies CDs they purchased at Software Retailers > Inc. (SRI sells binary-1,2,3 and has source-1,2,3 at the customer service > desk), they can pass along the information about SRI providing the source > code. If this is 3 years (and 1 day) after SRI sold its last binary CDs, > and SRI has discarded their source copies, is there a violation?
There is no violation, which is why clause (3) is so restricted in its application. Perhaps these days, it should be dropped entirely. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
