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Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog)

Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog)

Posted Nov 24, 2012 5:12 UTC (Sat) by steffen780 (guest, #68142)
In reply to: Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog) by paulj
Parent article: Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog)

"Further, if at any point you distribute in binary-only form, then you are obliged to provide source to *any* 3rd party, for a specified period."

Are you sure about this? Unless I'm severely mistaken the GPL requires you to make the sources available to the party/parties to whom you shipped GPLd stuff. It does not require you to make anything available to anyone else.


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Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog)

Posted Nov 24, 2012 5:29 UTC (Sat) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

3(b) requires that you provide a written offer valid for any third party if you only distribute binaries. You can avoid that requirement by distributing under 3(a) instead (ie, provide binary *and* source simultaneously)

Introducing RedPatch (Ksplice Blog)

Posted Nov 25, 2012 1:18 UTC (Sun) by steffen780 (guest, #68142) [Link]

My bad, so I was severely mistaken.

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