GPL compliance

Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera at zmsl.com
Wed Jun 28 16:49:57 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-28-06 at 09:46 -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> Seems like you still have to worry about finding the magic statements
> from the owners of all of the IP on the CD that is derived from other
> GPL'd IP, not just the Ubuntu people?

Why would I need that? I only need the statement from the distributor
who gave the software to me, and that is Canonical.

> And I'm doubtful that the Ubuntu CD even qualifies for 3(c), based on
> the home web site having a "Commercial" link to paid support, etc.

No, the non-commercial bit refers to my distribution, not Canonical's.
It doesn't matter if Canonical is commercial. What matters is that my
distribution not be commercial.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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