On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Smith, Jeffery S (Scott) wrote:
> Third, you are not required to deliver source code with the program, nor to
> make source code publically available as for example via anonymous ftp. You
> must make source code available for three years TO THOSE TO WHOM YOU
> DISTRIBUTE IT,
Not so. Consult a nearby copy of COPYING. There you will find:
...
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,
...
Note, "any third party".
> this means. Either it means that if I distribute the software, then I must
> make code available to ANYONE who asks for it.
That seems pretty clear to me.
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