| |||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||
Netfilter gets a GPL-enforcement injunctionNetfilter gets a GPL-enforcement injunctionPosted Apr 15, 2004 18:18 UTC (Thu) by piman (subscriber, #8957)In reply to: Netfilter gets a GPL-enforcement injunction by talahin Parent article: Netfilter gets a GPL-enforcement injunction > If Sitecom uses unmodified netfiler sources it would be enough to point a URL to the original netfilter site and including a printed version of the GPL. This is not true. They must provide the source code (or a written offer for it) themselves, not via the Netfilter site. Please read the GPL.
(Log in to post comments)
Netfilter gets a GPL-enforcement injunction Posted Apr 16, 2004 8:28 UTC (Fri) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] No, not if the code is /unmodified/ (as the poster to which you repliedspecified). In THAT case, a distributor only has to provide a pointer to the original code from where THEY got it (or on up the line to the original project site or developer). Of course, if they DO modify the code, their modifications to the source must be open-sourced, that is, they'd need to provide them, since no one else would be because it was their own mod. However, once again, if those mods are incorporated back into the main source, the original mod developer would no longer have to provide source as they could point to the main source code tree in which they were incorporated. That, BTW, is one MORE reason to get patches submitted and incorporated upline.. once they are, you no longer have to offer the source to them directly, only publicly offer a pointer to the project's own sources in which your patches have been incorporated. Duncan (from my understanding of the GPL, altho IANAL..)
Netfilter gets a GPL-enforcement injunction Posted Apr 16, 2004 9:40 UTC (Fri) by dcoutts (guest, #5387) [Link] Quoth he from the GNU GPL, verse 3, point c)[You must a), b) or c) ] c) Accompany it[the binary] with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) In other words comercial distributors must always provide full source code or a written offer to provide full source code. You only get to point to a URL/postal address if that's all you got in the first place and you're distribution was noncomercial.
Netfilter gets a GPL-enforcement injunction Posted Apr 22, 2004 17:55 UTC (Thu) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] Aye, but (b) is also a choice: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; A "medium customarily used for software interchange" would by any modern definition include the internet as one such medium, PARTICULARLY given the use of the internet for just such interchange, of Linux and other GPL licenced software, in general. Thus, a URL would be sufficient. Then comes the question of whether pointing to the source hosted by someone else would be sufficient. I think it could be, certainly in a simple redirect from your site to the other site, so the URL would be yours, but I could be wrong. However, in any case, the problem if it WAS hosted by an unrelated third party would be ensuring that it remains up for the necessary three years. Obviously, you'd be liable if the third party failed to host it for whatever reason, and most businesses wouldn't find such liability acceptable. That said, what they /could/ do would be simply provide a mirror of the original software site, which would neatly alleviate site update and administration issues, except for the hardware. Now that I think about it, perhaps that's one reason mirrors of anything widely used in open source are generally not so hard to find. Duncan Duncan
|
|
||||||||||||