OK. Looks like you may have got me there. I guess this is why GPLv3 clarifies this aspect a bit.
It hadn't dawned on me that maemo.org actually complied with 3a and that there was actually no written offer. Darren On 23 Mar 2010, at 00:20, Attila Csipa wrote: > On Tuesday 23 March 2010 00:39:09 Darren Long wrote: > > However, in the general case where the source and the executable are not > > the same, I believe that maemo.org would be obliged to continue to make the > > source available, for at least 3 years. > > Now, I might just be grossly misinformed or misinterpreting the legalese, but > to me it sounds like the GPL (at least v2) brings into play the 3 year > requirement IF and ONLY IF you choose to provide the sources through a > written offer (instead of accompanying the binaries through neighbouring > links, which is actually whatmaemo.org does). > > --- > > 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under > Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 > and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: > a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, > which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a > medium customarily used for software interchange; or, > 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, > c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to > distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for > noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object > code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b > above.) > > - > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
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