Picking a license

[Robert Kern]

On 2010-05-16 09:25 , Ed Keith wrote:
>
> --- On Sat, 5/15/10, Lawrence D'Oliveiro<ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand>  wrote:
>
>> From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro<ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
>> Subject: Re: Picking a license
>> To: python-list at python.org
>> Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010, 11:09 PM
>> In message<mailman.164.1273846256.32709.python-list at python.org>,
>> Ed Keith
>> wrote:
>>
>>> But if my client give someone else a copy of the
>> binary I gave them, they
>>> are now in violation.
>>
>> Why would they be in violation? It seems to me a violation
>> would only occur
>> if someone asked them for the source, and they refused.
>> --
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>
>
> No, the GPL makes it clear that the responsibly is on the distributor to either supply the source or written notice, Caveat venditor. The violation exists regardless of whether or not the recipient makes a request.

No, one of the options for you is that you make the source available upon request.

-- 
Robert Kern

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  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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