Picking a license

Ed Keith e_d_k at yahoo.com
Tue May 18 12:45:41 EDT 2010


--- On Tue, 5/18/10, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Picking a license
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 12:03 PM
> 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.
> 

But I am required to give written notice to that effect.

   -EdK

Ed Keith
e_d_k at yahoo.com

Blog: edkeith.blogspot.com



      



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