From: "Stuart Herbert" <stuart.herbert@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL and Source code providing
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:01:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b38c6f4c0606280801v55a22054he2250f8b57ffbd50@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44A2921A.9030606@alpha.spugium.net>
On 6/28/06, Mivz <mivz@alpha.spugium.net> wrote:
> How free is free software if you need a lawyer and a expensive server
> just to be able to publish your addition under your own name?
With the GPL v2, you don't need a server at all. You're perfectly
entitled to distribute the code on DVD (for example), for a fee. You
don't have to keep the source online at all.
If the GPL v3 does require you to keep the source online, that'd be a
shame. Relying on third parties (such as SourceForge, or Berlios) to
host your source online is risky ... if they disappear, *you* are
still liable to keep your source code online (presumably the three
year rule still applies). If the third party disappears, taking older
versions of the code with it, what then for you? Technically, you're
in violation.
The idea that everyone has cheap hosting available to them is sadly an
incomplete view of the world :(
Best regards,
Stu
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2006-06-28 9:21 [gentoo-dev] GPL and Source code providing Mivz
2006-06-28 9:39 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-06-28 10:47 ` Mivz
2006-06-28 11:14 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-06-28 9:44 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-06-28 11:33 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-06-28 14:28 ` Mivz
2006-06-28 14:45 ` Mike Doty
2006-06-28 15:18 ` Mivz
2006-06-28 15:34 ` Mike Doty
2006-06-28 15:45 ` Mivz
2006-06-28 16:34 ` Mivz
2006-06-28 16:52 ` Luca Barbato
2006-06-28 16:55 ` Mike Doty
2006-06-28 17:27 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-06-28 15:42 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-06-28 15:55 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-06-28 16:19 ` Mivz
2006-06-28 16:54 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2006-06-28 19:48 ` Luca Barbato
2006-06-28 21:16 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-06-30 21:09 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-06-28 14:48 ` [gentoo-dev] " Greg KH
2006-06-28 14:54 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-06-28 15:01 ` Stuart Herbert [this message]
2006-06-28 15:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Wiktor Wandachowicz
2006-06-28 15:30 ` Mivz
2006-06-28 17:00 ` Wiktor Wandachowicz
2006-06-28 17:54 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-06-28 19:20 ` Maurice van der Pot
2006-06-28 22:17 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-06-30 20:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-07-01 9:14 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-07-01 11:12 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-07-02 13:58 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-04 15:59 ` Patrick McLean
2006-07-04 15:34 ` Marius Mauch
2006-07-04 19:43 ` Patrick McLean
2006-07-04 20:15 ` Nick Devito
2006-07-05 8:38 ` Francesco Riosa
2006-07-05 13:20 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-05 13:11 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-04 20:31 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-07-05 13:24 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-05 13:59 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-07-05 14:17 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-05 13:00 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-05 13:19 ` Brian Harring
2006-07-05 13:38 ` Lance Albertson
2006-07-05 14:19 ` Brian Harring
2006-07-05 15:04 ` Lance Albertson
2006-07-05 15:51 ` Brian Harring
2006-07-05 16:16 ` Lance Albertson
2006-07-05 20:28 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-05 23:01 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-07-06 11:54 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-06 19:14 ` Michael Cummings
2006-07-06 20:47 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-05 13:35 ` [gentoo-dev] " Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-05 14:47 ` Patrick McLean
2006-07-05 17:58 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-07-05 17:04 ` [gentoo-dev] " Curtis Napier
2006-07-05 17:20 ` Jakub Moc
2006-07-05 17:29 ` Mike Doty
2006-07-05 17:33 ` Joshua Jackson
2006-07-05 18:42 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-04 16:26 ` Nick Devito
2006-07-05 12:58 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-07-04 16:47 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-06-28 19:39 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
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