Here's the passage in question:
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:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding
machine-readable source code, which must be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above
on a medium customarily used for
software interchange; or,
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,
c) Accompany it with the information you
received as to the offer to distribute corresponding
source code. (This alternative is allowed only for
noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or
executable form with such an offer, in accord with
Subsection b above.)
I'd say the Internet is now a "medium customarily used
for software exchange, even if it wasn't when the GPL
was written. Regardless, the second clause takes care
of what Lycoris is doing, IANAL either. :)
-Tina
--- Seth Hollen <seth@hollen.org> wrote:
> Remember Suse linux?
>
> IANAL!!!
>
> The GPL is not aware of the internet. it says you
> have to include the
> source code with the product. It doesn't say you
> have to make it free to
> download from the Internet.
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