From: Jim Weirich Date: 2003-07-13T20:24:16+09:00 Subject: Re: OT: GPL - was Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 20:39, Sean O'Dell wrote: > Actually, the GPL requires that, wherever you distribute the binaries from, > the source code must be available right alongside it. I've seen it said a > couple times in this discussion from various people that a developer can > withhold source code from distribution unless someone explicitly asks for > it, and this is not the case; the GPL actually requires you to distribute > the source code alongside the binaries. From the GPL version 2 (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)... 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) [...include the source...], 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) [...include the offer of source that you recieved...] -- -- Jim Weirich jweirich@one.net http://onestepback.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)