[IRCServices] AKILL

Gregory King gregk at wwwpages.com
Thu Jan 25 16:33:41 PST 2001


> 
> 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.


It was neither distrubuted nor published as stated in section 2.  That is
the whole point, I don't wish to distribute or publish it.