On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jun 26, 2007, [email protected] wrote:
unless you are saying that the GPLv3 is saying that a third party link
now _is_ sufficiant.
Yup. The improvement in GPLv3 is to relax the requirement of
providing source code in physical medium if you choose to not
distribute it along with the binaries. It's recognizing that internet
access is no longer a barrier that could stop someone from obtaining
the sources they're entitled to. Even someone who doesn't have
regular or fast internet access can hire a third party who does to
perform the download and record it.
I.e., with GPLv3, you *can* point at the sources you used, even in a
site that you don't control.
However, if the site takes the sources out, you're still responsible
for providing sources to those who received the sources from you from
that point on. Or something like that, IANAL ;-)
this sounds like a step backwards, you may not have the sources at that
point if you were relying on the other site to host them.
and by the way, internet access never was a barrier that could stop
someone from obtaining them, the only issue was you hosting the source vs
someone else hosting the source.
David Lang
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