In <[email protected]>, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable >> source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections >> 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software >> interchange; or, > >[...] > >> Usually, this prohibits "simply" providing a "pointer" to the >> source code. The other versions on the GPL and the various > >IIUC, the internet is a "medium customarily used for software >interchange" nowadays. Of course, you do need to make sure that you >will be able to point to an appropriate URL for the following 3 years, >which may require you to store your own archive.
Option a requires the source and binary to be distributed on the same medium. This means that a source repository on the Internet doesn't satisfy this option for binaries distributed on CDs. Now, *if* the Internet is considered a "medium customarily used for software interchange", a URL that was live for at least 3 years after the date the binaries were distributed could be part of "a written offer [...] to give any third party [...] a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code". That URL could NOT be protected behind a EULA, TOS, mandatory registration, or selective-authentication system (it must be accessible to "ANY third party"). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [email protected] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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