Re: [License-discuss] License-discuss Digest, Vol 78, Issue 4

2018-08-07 Thread Bruce Perens
This came up for me regarding an automobile media center containing Linux and other Free Software. It seemed to me that this part would eventually be traded by auto dismantlers, etc. My customer was a major auto part manufacturer with deep pockets and potentially many automobile brands integrating

Re: [License-discuss] License-discuss Digest, Vol 78, Issue 4

2018-08-07 Thread David Woolley
On 07/08/18 21:53, Gustavo G. Mármol wrote: That´s to say, regardless of the quantities of commercial resellers that it could be in a "distribution binary product´s chain" the original distributor/manufacturer would be the party that in practical terms would provide "the source code offer" to t

Re: [License-discuss] License-discuss Digest, Vol 78, Issue 4

2018-08-07 Thread Gustavo G . Mármol
With respect to the sentence: *"I mention the dealers and distributors because the three-year obligation is theirs as well, but they generally have no idea how to fulfill it".* I would agree that from GPLv2 text would emerge that commercial redistributors must provide they own source code offer,