On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 17:31, Tathagata Banerjee wrote: > But it was not enough to write free software; one had to make sure it > remained free. In order to keep software free, Stallman devised the
I think we could cut out the "praise RMS my great lord" part here (just joking;)). But cant we call it a decision by the FSF, rather than that of 'ol holy beard RMS? > General Public License (GNU GPL), which practically guarantees the > continued freedom of any program that is released under its terms. In > essence, the GPL ensures that a user of GPL-ed software receives the > program's source code along with the binaries, Tathagata da, I dont think a distributor is obliged to provide the source code with the binaries. However, if the customer so desires, then he is bound by the terms of the GPL to provide the source, at a price if necessary. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sumeet Madhukar Moghe | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] C/O Mr PK Das, Ghola C Block, | Phone:+ 91 - 33 - 2595 1420 Opposite Checkpost, Sodepur, | + 91 - 33 - 2565 7575 Calcutta 700 110 - INDIA | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Never trust anyone who says money is no object. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
