[wellylug] GPL Licence

[Nigel Roberts]

I guess this is never an issue as long as the source that was used to
generate the exact binary image being distributed is available
elsewhere.

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 at 14:33:50 +1200, 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?
> 
> I'm really confused right now... :-)
> 
> thanks,
> 
> 
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