[IRCServices] AKILL

[Kelmar K. Firesun]

Excerpts from the GPL Version 2:

Section 2:
    b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
    whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
    part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
    parties under the terms of this License.

Section 3:
    a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
    source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
    1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,

    b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
    years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
    cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
    machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
    distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
    customarily used for software interchange; or,

So to answer your question, "YES," under the terms of the GPL you
MUST give up the source code upon request or at least notify people
were they can obtain the source code free of charge.  This does
not have to be included with the binary distribution though.

Bryce Simonds (Kelmar K. Firesun)
IRC operator: dream.esper.net



----- Original Message -----
From: Gregory King <gregk at wwwpages.com>
To: <ircservices at ircservices.za.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCServices] AKILL


>
> I got some bozo telling me I have to give them the source code to our
> modified services because of the GPL license.  I assume this is crap, that
> if we distributed the binary, we would also have to include the source.
> Is my assumption correct?
>
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