Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 26, 2007, Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is it in the spirit of GPLv2? > > > > No, but that's besides the point. > > Thanks for informing me about the point *I*'m trying to make ;-) > > > You can only hold people responsible for the letter, lest there be > > chaos. > > That's not *quite* how it works, but that's a general idea, yes. > > >> How are the sources passed on in this way going to benefit the user or > >> the community? > > > > They still have to provide the source by other GPL means of their > > choosing. > > This is contradictory. You said the scenario I described was > permitted, and the scenario included the vendor's refusal to give > customers other copies of the sources. > > Which is it?
I read your scenario of the vendor not giving you the source to mean: not directly; i.e. they could give you a third-party download link. Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
