object code distribution requirements in GPLv2 and GPLv3 [LWN.net]

object code distribution requirements in GPLv2 and GPLv3

Posted Jul 12, 2007 8:21 UTC (Thu) by dark (✭ supporter ✭, #8483)
In reply to: object code distribution requirements in GPLv2 and GPLv3 by dlang
Parent article: An update on Yoggie GPL compliance

Do you have a reference to where the FSF said that? I suspect they're
talking about something else, namely that you cannot pass along a 3(b)
offer if you didn't get one in the first place.

For example, if you redistribute binaries from the Debian archives, then
you cannot simply tell people they can get the sources from the Debian
archives themselves, because Debian is using option 3(a) and it never made
any promise to keep the sources there for 3 years.

That's different from the case under discussion, where the distributor is
using option 3(b) to distribute binaries without accompanying source code.

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