Juergen Weigert wrote:
[...] On the outside of the box there is the URL "www.novell.com/usersupport" This web page has a collection of 'Helpful links', one of these is called 'Source code' ...
GPL version 2, §3b reads: You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable format [...] 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; or, [...] I am not a lawyer, but I can understand when some people have doubts that a URL on the outside of the box (or on media kit) pointing to a web site which has at the bottom a link (among many other links) that points yet to another web site that points to the source code is a "written offer, valid for at least three years that accompanies the binary packages" in the box... Don't misunderstand me, I do not have a problem with the current situation! But I don't think it's as obvious and clear as some people would like to make us believe. However, if Novell's lawyers are happy with it, there's nothing more to say about it. Cheers, Th. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org