Conveying the license text in print form is not an odious requirement. There are 200 to 400 pages of tutorial material, to dedicate two to a small-print rendition of GPL is no hardship.
Nobody ever requested the source code on a CD. Where appropriate, it was available for download. If anyone tries to contest that download is not an appropriate medium under the terms GPL2, they are doing it to be difficult, not to get the source. We would have had the means to deal with such a person.
In general, all parties went to the project (for example, Samba) for the source code.
A book isn't a computer program. While we could fulfill the GPL terms easily enough, we could have also made a case that the program inclusions in the book were quotations in a critical work, and should have been handled as such.
We had no power to issue waivers, since we weren't the copyright holder of the software.
Thanks
Bruce
On 09/06/2012 02:55 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting John Cowan ([email protected]):The difficulty is that text often winds up in printed books, and then you either have to distribute a CD with the book containing the editable source, or be prepared to issue such CDs for no more than the cost of distributing them. Both are expensive and awkward activities, and neither is well-supported by the printed-book sales channels that exist.Emphasis added: _Um, hello? Waiver._ _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
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