GPL compliance

[Daniel Carrera]

On Wed, 2006-28-06 at 11:44 +0100, Jane Silber wrote:
> The back of the CD cover.
> 
> "Source code for Ubuntu can be downloaded from archive.ubuntu.com or can
> be ordered from Canonical at the cost of the media and shipping."

Thanks Jane. IANAL but I think I can use that. This certainly covers
Canonical under section 3(b):

b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to
give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically
performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the
corresponding source code

This means that now I, as an Ubuntu re-distributor, can use 3(c):

c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to
distribute corresponding source code. [if you got the binaries under
3(b) above].


So what one can do is put a sticker on the CDs with a copy of that note,
or else put it in a README file in the CD itself.

It would be good if Canonical's ISO images included a README with that
note. That would make everyone automatically GPL compliant.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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