Florian Weimer dijo [Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:14:55PM +0100]: > > Well... Remember the GPL does not require you to provide the sources > > _together_ with the binary/printout/whatever - It requires you to > > provide means to get the sources. So if you print a book that [...] > > has the URL for the place you can refer to in order to get the > > source, it will be enough. That does not sound like 'unnecessarily > > complicated'. > > This is an unusual GPL interpretation. Most commentators assume that > providing a *separate* URL is *not* enough.
That's exactly what Debian does, isn't it? I know that if I want to get the sources of a Debian package, I have to ask apt-get for it. What apt-get does is to look for the URL for the source package in /var/lib/apt/lists and fetch it. Of course, I can do that by myself as well - And, as it is very hard to include an application that can do precisely that in a printed book, the closest you can get is to say "you can get the sources for this boot at http://whatever/ or by writing to my snail-mail address, which is this and that". Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)1451-2244 / 5554-9450 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF
