BusyBox settles another lawsuit

Just ship the complete proper source when you ship the binary and you are done. No more
obligations. Right?

all the best,

drew
http://zotzbro.blogspot.com/

Yes, it's ultimately your responsibility, but you can still rely on a third party to deliver
on your behalf. We do it every day with courier companies, ISPs, and myriad other
organisations. There's a risk that they will fail you, and disappoint the customer, and in
that case you have to fix it (even if you also sue the third party for screwing up). But
there's often a benefit to letting a specialist do it for you which makes the risk worthwhile.

A site which says "The 4GB of GPL'd source code for our various products is now supplied by
Compliance.example.com, please go there" is OK (assuming you've actually made such an
arrangement with the site linked), whereas, "Most of our products use GPL'd code, you can
usually find the source code with Google" is not OK.

Nonsense. That you are -responsible- for something does NOT mean that you cannot let someone
else do the work.

It's not as if you fail to deliver the source if you let the Postal Service do the actual work
of transporting the source to the person wanting it.

It's not as if you fail to deliver the source if you let RackSpace do the actual work of
providing the download of the source-tarball.

It makes no difference at all if you do it, or if you just pay someone else to do it for you.
The point is that it's done. That those who have the right to the source also actually get it.