GPL compliance

ubuntu at rio.vg ubuntu at rio.vg
Fri Jun 30 16:28:12 UTC 2006


Alexander Skwar wrote:
> 
> That doesn't matter. What matters is, how a user, who doesn't have
> access to the internet, can make use of his rights. It's just not
> his problem, if the distributor only choses to offer the source
> code in a way, that's most convenient to the distributor. IMO, he
> should offer it in a way, so that the user can get hold of it.
> Offline users don't have access to online resources, thus, if the
> source is only available online, then it's not available to him
> and I'd think, that the distributor would be violating the GPL.

I covered this in another e-mail, so I'm not going to repeat it,
especially with this amazing statement below:

>>  Someone trying to suggest
>> that the internet is not often used to download programs would be
>> laughed at.
> 
> No, I don't think so.

Are you honestly suggesting that the internet is not commonly used to
download programs?

I don't know how to respond to that...




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