Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:26:57AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Could people please comment on > > > http://master.debian.org/~joey/legal.en.html
Could you reread and check? > > I plan to add this to http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ and would > > like the advice to be correct. > > Mentioning option 3 at all seems misleading, IMHO. No one burning CDs > from our archive receives such an offer, so it should be made clear that > even non-profits cannot exercise this option. Err... They have received the binary code *and* the source, but decided to ignore the source. Debian distributes both source and binary on their archive, for both individual packages and cd images. > Providing CDs "on demand" only satisfies the GPL if the distributor > included a written offer. If there's no written offer, the source has Fixed. > to be provided up front. The explanatory text doesn't emphasize this > enough, IMHO -- as we all know, there are people who won't read (or > understand, perhaps) the license text, even when excerpted for them. ;) Is it phrased better now? If not, could you send a patch for the text? Regards, Joey -- The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
