[gnu.misc.discuss added] In article <[email protected]>, Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer <[email protected]> wrote: > Linux is used in almost all UAV's. It's reliable, completely > customizable and cheap. Windows was never even considered since the > U.S. air force was afraid a virus would bring down its combat planes.
This raises an interesting question. Suppose Linux were used in the on-board systems of a missile. Would shooting that missile at someone count as a distribution of the GPLed software used in those onboard systems? Is the missile required to be accompanied by a copy of the GPL? Assuming that it is a distribution, and is accompanied with a written offer to deliver source code in a manner customarily used for software distribution, if a terrorist were to write to the missile manufacturer and ask for the source, would it be acceptable to put that source code in another missile and fire that at the terrorist, since that is the manner the original software was distributed? -- --Tim Smith _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
