On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 03:09:00 +0800, Jonathan wrote in message 
<[email protected]>:

> > ..what about rented cars, can you hand it back to the owner
> > without source code, if you are a commercial figure?  As a
> > private non-commersial person, you can use the GPLv2's §3c.
>
> If I am a business and I rent a computer running Linux where the
> original creator of the Linux binaries in question has published the
> source code on a web site and given appropriate info in the
> documentation (i.e. GPL notices, package manager that supports source
> downloading etc) but has not actually included the source code on the
> box, am I obligated to provide the source code back to the company I
> rented the computer from?
> 
> The car example is exactly the same, its a "computer running Linux"
> that happens to also have an engine, some seats, some doors, some
> wheels and some other bits and pieces.

..correct, with the exception that I assumed no §3a delivery 
and no §3b offer of source code from the renting company.

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.

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