Florian Weimer dijo [Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:16:11PM +0100]: > > So... If I hand over a Debian CD to someone, will I be breaching the > > law as I am giving him only the binaries, even if they have a very > > easy way of getting the sources? > > It's generally believed that it's sufficient to offer a source code CD > at the same time you give away the CD with binaries, as long as you > are prepared to fulfill this offer.
So is it generally believed that live CDs (which have become _way_ too popular not to be taken into account) do not count as distribution? > > Or, if we talk about other distributions (which _are_ usually > > distributed via CDs), do they breach the GPL? > > All distributions I bought so far had source code on the same CD, or > came with separate source code CDs. I just checked the CD I got from the Ubuntu guys - It does not contain any source packages. And I hold the Ubuntu guys as more committed to Free Software than most other comercial distributions. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)1451-2244 / 5554-9450 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF