On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:22, MJ Ray wrote: > Stephen Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the whole installation was under such a license. I'm now liable to > > distribute the source code for an entire operating system to every > > person who manages to obtain a web page from me. > > How does this differ from your current obligation to either provide > the source or equivalent offer to that which you obtained the source? > Or is your server a 0-user affair? So why wouldn't the offer clause > work for you?
Has Debian made such an offer? I can only pass along such an offer if I received one in the first place. To my knowledge, Debian has made no such offer on any code. It also does not apply if I make any commercial use of my server (which I do, to the tune of a couple hundred dollars per year). The difference is that I don't currently run a debian mirror on it, and I don't have to, either. The difference is that I currently have to get into the distribution business only if I want to be in the distribution business, whereas such licenses obligate every person who has a computer running such code to be in the distribution business (I'm phrasing this carefully so as to avoid any difficulty over the definition of a "user" here). Of what use is "Free" software if nobody is willing to run it?