[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>>>> The GPL discriminates against people on >>>>> desert islands who have a binary CD but not a source one. >>>> >>>>I must have missed that one. How? >>> >>> Because they can't give any of the contents to their washed-up >>> companion. >> >>That person has either deleted his copies of the source or failed to >>ask for them; either way, it's his own fault. Alternately, somebody >>upstream of him has violated the copyright by not obeying the >>license. > > Well, he may have that written offer to get source copies for three year, > don't he ?
Then his upstream didn't use the Free option for distribution; that's OK. > And i have some doubt that if he failed to ask for them (or you where a little > silent on the proposing of them as we often do at shows and such), that > changes anything to the issue. You should have given them to him anyway, as > is your obligation under the GPL. Then let's say I did follow the license. Then either he has them, or he deprived himself of them. Not my problem, or the license's. _Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
