RE: Dell vs. GPL

From: David Schwartz (davids@webmaster.com)
Date: Mon Jun 30 2003 - 04:17:59 EST


> If you can supply source on a floppy, or CDROM, or DVD, in a different
> form than the binary (which may be in a flash ROM, ...), then clearly
> it doesn't have to be in the same form as the Program.
> The URL of a website is a medium customarily used for software
> interchange.

        I think that offering a link to the source code every place one puts a link
to the object code would certainly be considered 'accompanying' the source
with the object. If they're in substantially the same place and accessed by
substantially the same procedure, I think they're accompanying each other.

        Do I really want to be forced to download the linux kernel source just to
download a boot disk image?

        DS

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