Brian Frederick Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 09:35 pm -0800 on November 29, 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > [...] the GPL requires that you give a copy of the GPL to anyone you > > give the binary for a program to. > > Interestingly, this appears to only apply to some GPLed binaries, not > all (see example below). And of course it is only necessary if you wish > to have the rights granted in section 1, i.e. be able to distribute > "verbatim copies of the Program's source code" (a right that Debian > obviously needs).
No, you're confused. If you distribute binaries, you can only do so under the terms of section 3. Section 3 says that the same requirements for source code in sections 1 and 2 also apply to the case of binaries, plus extra requirements for binaries.
