OK, I am reposting my bounced mail, in three parts. Part I of 3, 8th Jan 2007: -------------------- Before we discuss this further, some links:
The GNU GPL FAQ <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html> How to use the GNU GPL for your own programs <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html> And now the four freedoms enshrined in the license, GPL v2<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, quoting rms: "Freedom 0 is the freedom to run the software as you wish. Freedom 1 is the
freedom to study and change the source code as you wish. Freedom 2 is the freedom to copy and distribute the software as you wish. And freedom 3 is the freedom to create and distribute modified versions as you wish."
These are the freedoms available to the people to whom you distribute your program. For the author / modifier, Section 3 of GPLv2 states (in slightly truncated form) as under ((C) Free Software Foundation, Inc.): "*3.* You may copy and distribute the Program in object code or executable
form provided that you also do one of the following: *a)* Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code; or, *b)* Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code; or, *c)* Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
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