Scripsit Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:42:59PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > In this case the clause also discriminates against anyone who can > > afford giving his neighbour a floppy disk with modified sources > > but cannot afford using whatever "accepted Electronic Distribution > > Mechanism" the language means. > I suspect that the same floppy disk would be an "accepted Electronic > Distribution Mechanism" - I read that bit as saying you must make an > electronic copy of the source avaliable in some reasonable manner. It defines the term as someting *generally* accepted. Hence not every technically feasible medium is generally accepted. By the way, giving a floppy disk to your neighbour does not necessarily incur the same costs sending the floppy to the original author would. Or you could substitute a more exotic medium than a floppy disk. What if you were connected to the neighbour with a nonstandard LAN and neither of you have writable floppy drives? You get the software on CD-ROMs by ground mail. -- Henning Makholm "What the hedgehog sang is not evidence."
