Alexandre Oliva: > On Jun 26, 2007, Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I read your scenario of the vendor not giving you the source to > > mean: not > > directly; i.e. they could give you a third-party download link. > > This has never been enough to comply with GPLv2.
A lot of people seem to say this, but I don't think it's true. Section 3b says: 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, A web page with a download URL is just such an offer. The Internet is a medium customarily used for software interchange. I do not see why the following statement doesn't meet the requirements above: "The source code for this product is available under the terms of the GPL from the following web page http://www.mycompanyname.com/gpl" This assumes that no special steps are needed to obtain the software from that web page. DS - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/