On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 12:07 +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote: > I worry that it may be convenient for the licensee to make such explicit > arrangements with an inept and [especially] going-bankrupt operator in > order to fulfill this requirement and yet restrict access to te source. > > e.g. I contract with "my-little-brother inc." to make the source > available, and immediately fulfil the clause. My little brother goes out > of business and we both have a party the same day to celebrate our > subversion of the GPL.
As I read it, the "as long as needed to satisfy these requirements" basically only kicks in when you stop distributing the program: if you continued to distribute the program, yet my-little-brother inc. was out of business, you would still need to provide access to the source. In other words, you couldn't distribute the GPL'd binaries and point people to a defunct company to receive the source. Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
