From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fvbj8-0002eM-H2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:13:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5SF9w1C032528; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:09:58 GMT Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.207]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5SF1hLG009531 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:01:44 GMT Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id i1so2627800nzh for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:01:43 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=G+/6UGxf+pg0Tr8Db9VXVREsZeK7y2IDgC7y4thnbShYuR5AhFXtPY5uMAavoRwPUad2qVhR8WYjsz0ZUMVajyTZYdjt7/SlPS1XS9bqKDFuWq44kDCJFmCBO8AWCtnljSre1ZsysA/d4oSt7LKXsgjMpxYI1iVB9GtsM58Wjgw= Received: by 10.36.134.3 with SMTP id h3mr1211157nzd; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:01:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.182.28 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:01:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:01:42 +0100 From: "Stuart Herbert" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GPL and Source code providing In-Reply-To: <44A2921A.9030606@alpha.spugium.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44A24A29.2080402@alpha.spugium.net> <20060628133332.1033f464@c1358217.kevquinn.com> <44A2921A.9030606@alpha.spugium.net> X-Archives-Salt: cca5f94a-c172-48f4-96ca-6ed33c337285 X-Archives-Hash: bba1318b39d93cad7c8ddf6d730d6f52 On 6/28/06, Mivz 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list