On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > Charlie Brady wrote at 22:51 (EDT) on Saturday: > > > Is there anything to say that the offer actually has to be honoured? > > Failure to honor an offer that's made is copyright infringement, since > it violates GPL. The offer has to be "valid" -- GPL says that > explicitly. > > The problem we have these days, admittedly, is that savvy violators just > paste invalid offers everywhere as a way to thwart GPL enforcement efforts.
Is there any legal definition of "valid"? Or any test cases? > Years ago, when I enforced GPL, I didn't bother to test offers; I > assumed they were valid. These days, most enforcement matters aren't > "no-source-nor-offer" (the most common violation until circa 2005), but > "offer-fail" (the current most common violation). Perhaps there would be less of that if the GPL had required delivery or posting of source code, rather than just an "offer".
