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3 years3 yearsPosted Jan 24, 2006 0:01 UTC (Tue) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)In reply to: durable physical medium by sanjoy Parent article: Suits and Patents: A Report from the GPLv3 Launch Conference
Well, the net effect of the 3 years provision is that if you violate it, you lose your legal right to redistribute modified binaries, as extended to you by the GPL. If you lose your physical ability to distribute the source code (e.g. your website implodes for whatever reason), chances are you've also lost your ability to distribute the binaries.
The net effect of this provision is that you are encouraged to offer the binaries and corresponding source together. If, for some reason, the two channels are separate (think "firmware" and "website" for binaries and source, respectively), then you must take additional pains to ensure that the source remains available.
I don't think this is too onerous. Web hosting is cheap (and getting cheaper), and is especially cheap with respect to the cost of developing the software in house.
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3 years Posted Jan 24, 2006 2:05 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] Not to only mention that it doesn't specify that you have to have it immediately aviable.. and that it's always been possible to recoup the expenses caused by distributing the source code. (at least in GPLv2, I assume they didn't change it in GPLv3 draft)
For instance if you need to go out and stamp a bunch of cdroms for some people you can change those people postage and the costs of making those cdroms.
So that way you don't have to deal with some a-hole trolling and demanding a hundred copies of source code while posing as multiple people over email or whatnot.
At least that is my understanding.
Ten times cost. Posted Jan 24, 2006 5:59 UTC (Tue) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link] > it's always been possible to recoup the expenses caused by> distributing the source code. (at least in GPLv2, I assume > they didn't change it in GPLv3 draft) They did change it. You're now allowed to charge up to ten times what it costs you to distribute source, rather than provide source at cost.
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