On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:37:47AM +0000, Ben DeLong wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a question. I am building a Linux appliance based completely on
> open source software. In putting this appliance together I have not
> added nor modified a single line of code in any of the open source
> applications that I'm using. As this is an appliance and storage space
> is limited, there is no room to include the source within the
> appliance. Given that all the code in this appliance is freely
> available from a variety of locations on the net, do I have to go to the
> trouble of providing a source CD for all the open source programs that I
> have included in it?
Cf: Section 3 of the GNU GPL, which spells out source distribution
obligations.
You must distribute sources, or a promise to provide same at no more
than cost of physically performing the source distribution. If and only
if you are considering a non-commercial use of GPL'd code can you rely
on pointing to existing distribution points. Distribution need not be
on the appliance itself.
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