"Henning Makholm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Scripsit "Robinson Tryon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My guess is that the lawyers who drafted the GPL knew or believed that
the courts would interpret such a "written offer" like a coupon: you
have to physically (or electronically, etc...) have a copy of that
particular written offer in order to redeem it for the source code.
In order to _enforce_ the offer legally, one would of course need a
way to prove that it exists. But I am not sure that the vendor can
demand that such proof should take exactly the form of a photocopy of
the original document.
Perhaps the magazine could request a copy of the offer.
That would allow the orignal copy to be sent in (tear out the magazine
page),
a photocopy, a handwritten copy, or even a re-typeset copy.
That would clearly be reasonable. I think it would even be acceptable for
the magazine
to say photocopy, as long as it acutally accepts any type of copy.
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