On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 12:22:52PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/20/20 12:15 PM, Tobias Frost wrote: > >> It's pretty obvious from this clause that the requirement to provide the > >> sources > >> of your modifications for at least 12 months applies to commercial > >> distribution > >> only. > > > > Distributing to friends may cross the line of personal use. And !"personal > > use" != "commercial use". > > (I define "personal use" as individual use; not use of a group.) > > > > Also, there may be an Dissident Inc; also that needs the Dissident Test to > > pass. > > > > The last sentence reads to me that distributiong to 3rd parties is > > Deployment. > > Your dissident friend is a "third party". > > > > However, if it is the intention of that paragraph that commercial use is to > > be > > treated differently, this alone would alone is a reason to call a license > > non-free (DFSG ยง6). > > How is that different from the GPL-2 which mandates three years of > distribution > for non-personal distribution. I have the impression that you are applying > double-standards here. > > Any commercial product using GPL-2 must share the source code publicly, the > same applies to the APSL-1.2. There is no difference.
No. the GPL requires you only to give the sources to the recipient of the work, not to everyone which is the defintiopn of "publicily" [1]. [1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/publicly > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
