On Aug 11, 06 02:34:15 +0200, Martin Schröder wrote: > > 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, > ---------------------------- > > The boxed version comes without sources, so 3a doesn't doesn't apply > and 3b must be followed.
Right. 3b we do. > But the written offer is nowhere in the box, just a pointer to it on > the web (and this pointer is in places where people normally don't > look (bottom of the box, somewhere on some CD)). An 'offer' and a 'pointer to an offer' do not make much difference to me. And space on the box is scarce. We cannot put everything up front. > To conform with the GPL, at least the text ... > from > http://www.novell.com/products/suselinux/source_code.html or words to > that effect _must_ be somewhere _in_ the box and should be on every > media. Your '_must_' appears to be your personal opinion, I guess. (Telling people this prominently is not a bad idea, but not legally binding.) The GPL does not require a specific form of offer. For most of us, the mere concept 'hey, it comes from opensuse.org, so I know where the sources are' may be sufficent. For myself, I know that a number of Source-DVD's were shipped in order to fulfill the offer. So it actually works as is. cheers, Jw. -- o \ Juergen Weigert paint it green! __/ _=======.=======_ <V> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wide open suse_/ _---|____________\/ \ | 0911 74053-508 (tm)__/ (____/ /\ (/) | __________________________/ _/ \_ vim:set sw=2 wm=8
