Hello,
I appreciate the efforts of everyone who tries to set up a
software business given the way in which the entire expectation of
manufacturers, users and the public is skewed by the way in which this
has been done over the last 20 years or so. However, corrections are
required!
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, சிவகுமார் மா wrote:
> Allow me the liberty of answering your question. I am not sure whether Mr.
> Baskar offers the source for free to everyone. If he does, that shows his
> generosity.
>
> To follow licence terms of open source software, he just needs to provide
> source code to those *who bought his server. *Not to everyone.
That is not what the GPLv2 says. Quoting from section 3.
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,
(Emphasis provided by me.) This is why the customisation provided by
RedHat (which is extensive!) is available to the people who
distribute CentOS --- all that is not available is the branding.
Regards,
Kapil H. Paranjape.
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