On Aug 11, 06 02:34:15 +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:
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, ----------------------------
The boxed version comes without sources, so 3a doesn't doesn't apply and 3b must be followed.
Right. 3b we do.
But the written offer is nowhere in the box, just a pointer to it on the web (and this pointer is in places where people normally don't look (bottom of the box, somewhere on some CD)).
An 'offer' and a 'pointer to an offer' do not make much difference to me. And space on the box is scarce. We cannot put everything up front.
To conform with the GPL, at least the text ... from > http://www.novell.com/products/suselinux/source_code.html or words to that effect _must_ be somewhere _in_ the box and should be on every media.
Your '_must_' appears to be your personal opinion, I guess. (Telling people this prominently is not a bad idea, but not legally binding.) The GPL does not require a specific form of offer. For most of us, the mere concept 'hey, it comes from opensuse.org, so I know where the sources are' may be sufficent. For myself, I know that a number of Source-DVD's were shipped in order to fulfill the offer. So it actually works as is. cheers, Jw. -- o \ Juergen Weigert paint it green! __/ _=======.=======_ <V> | jw@suse.de wide open suse_/ _---|____________\/ \ | 0911 74053-508 (tm)__/ (____/ /\ (/) | __________________________/ _/ \_ vim:set sw=2 wm=8