On 07.09.2010 17:42, Gervase Markham wrote:
On 20/08/10 01:22, Ben Bucksch wrote:
You can always offer a download on your own server and cite the URL in
the app.
And that was one of its most annoying provisions. When you are doing
daily builds on 3 platforms in 75 languages, do you have any idea how
much disk space it requires to keep source available for 6 months?
Yes. None.
<http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/archive/4958e6add3c9.tar.bz2> is
fine. (Plus a similar link to the locale source.)
The point is that you don't place unnecessary burdens on the
redistributor. Limiting it to the number of copies of the binary
distributed bases an upper bound on e.g. the amount of money you need
to spend on bandwidth and your FTP server. Mandating you make it
available to the whole world opens you up to unlimited costs. That's
unreasonable, IMO.
I've done it. Even in year 2000, when bandwidth was 1000 times more
expansive than now, the FTP traffic costs were not significant.
Fact is: if you need to write a paper letter to the company and wait for
it being answers, as some companies have demanded for GPL, *that* is an
"unreasonable burden" on the part of the open-source developer /
customer who is just curious what they did with the Mozilla source. A
burden that is so high that I am unlikely to do it, unless in
exceptional circumstances.
Sorry, but source code provision is at the very core of open-source. It
must be loophole-free.
Ben
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