Picking a license

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand
Thu May 13 23:03:32 EDT 2010


In message <72888d2c-4b1a-4b08-a3aa-
f4021d2ed646 at e2g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, Patrick Maupin wrote:

> If I download an Ubuntu ISO, burn it and give it away (let's say I give
> away 100 copies, just to remove the fair use defense), then I have
> violated the GPL.  I provided chapter and verse on this; go look it up.

I have looked it up <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>, and sections 
3b or 3c would seem to apply. Or alternatively 
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, 6b or 6c. If the source you got it 
from didn’t violate the GPL, then obviously you didn’t either.



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