GPL compliance

[ubuntu at rio.vg]

deanlinkous wrote:
> I find everyone is always quick to mention the "medium customarily used
> for software interchange" part BUT leave out the "accompany it" part of
> that section. You have to meet the whole thing as written not just part
> of it. So if you ship via mail the CD then you MUST ship the source or
> at least the written offer for source. And as stated Ubuntu seems to
> handle all that!  I dont see what the discussion about permissions is
> all about...but I havent had coffee yet so maybe it will click later.

It's a "A, B, _or_ C", not all three.  You don't have to "accompany it"
if you provide the source elsewhere or point to a 3rd party that provides.


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  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.)
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