[wellylug] GPL Licence

[Jamie Baddeley]

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 14:33, Jethro Carr wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> 
> I'm just trying to understand something in the GPL licence,
> 
> According to the licence, anyone who distributes a binary version of a
> GPL program, must also make the source code avaliable, even if there has
> been no changes to it.
> 
> How come people like ISPS, Mirrors, etc, can host binary versions of
> distros without providing source code access? Isn't this against the
> GPL?

Basically right, except the "must supply source code" clause is valid if
you have charged money for the binaries. If you are giving it away, I
don't think it matters. And you only need to supply source if asked.

That's my understanding. I'm sure someone will augment this.

> 
> I'm really confused right now... :-)
> 
> thanks,
> 
> 
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