Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[BandiPat <penguin0601@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 21 September 2005 11:57 am, Christoph Thiel wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, BandiPat wrote:
> > Can we assume the sources will be available online then?  I do wish
> > these were still included with the package as I always find them
> > very useful, plus I thought the sources had to be included,
> > according to the GPL.  Or have I misunderstood that and they only
> > have to be made easily available?
>
> Quoting http://www.gnu.org/licenses/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:
>
>   ...
>
>     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;
>
>   ...
>
> Note: The sources will be made available in the ftp trees as always.
>
>
> Regards
> 	Christoph
>
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 And how would one go about requesting a DVD of the sources?

regards,
Lee