Hallo, Marek hat gesagt: // Marek wrote: > Here's one definition of distribute:To divide among several or many; > to deal out; to > apportion; to allot. > > Let' have an example: > > If i take ardour, throw out everything GUI related plus a couple of > other things, make some modifications in order to > make it work with a custom front panel with a couple of hardware > buttons, a couple of hardware sliders and a lcd panel in order to > build a 16 track rack based recorder, > and make the sources free, would call this distributing ardour?
Of course: Then I distribute a modified version of Ardour. As long as the rest of the GPL is fullfilled (sources available etc.) this is perfectly fine and covered by the GPL. It doesn't matter that I chose a very expensive means of distributing Ardour (stored inside of a full keyboard) and not just a floppy disk: I am still distributing copies of (a modified) Ardour here. It has already been said: Tens of thousands of W-LAN routers in the world do exactly this, and to my knowledge none of the vendors was ever accused of breaking the GPL because they took money - the were indicted only because they didn't provide source code as required by the GPL. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev