> From: John Cowan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: Re: Advertising Clauses in Licenses > > Lawrence E. Rosen scripsit: > > > As for the GPL, where does it say that you can't distribute > source via > > a website? As I read it, you must merely distribute source > code "on a > > medium customarily used for software interchange." I now > get almost > > all of my software, including proprietary programs, through > downloads. > > See > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DistributeWithSourceOnInternet > et seqq.
I see where the gnu.org site comments on that. But I see no such restrictions in the GPL itself. "Not every user is on a network." ???? Every user that wants source is *now* on the Internet. The license provisions rule. Please note that I'm not necessarily recommending this as a standard procedure. I was just trying to suggest an alternative for those who complain that they can't fit all the required notices on a file on disk along with the software. That has to be a subset of a subset of a subset of distributors. /Larry Rosen -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
