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
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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:
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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;
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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