Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:44:09 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's so evil about GPL Message-ID: <199607152244.SAA08783@goldman.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199607142351.BAA13294@uriah.heep.sax.de> (message from J Wunsch on Mon, 15 Jul 1996 01:51:17 %2B0200 (MET DST))
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>>> . You are forced to become a software redistribution institution >>> once you have modified some of the source code, and intend to >>> redistrib- ute your modified work. >> Er... Well, to redistribute your work, you normally have to be >> allied with a software distributor, right? > No. Not if you are a small company serving a dozen or so small > customers. It's not your primary interest to distribute software, > but to provide solutions then. Then you need only provide the source to those. If they choose to redistribute, it is their obligation to provide your source, no longer yours. Your only obligation to provide source is to the extent that you provide binaries. And you have no obligation whatsoever to provide binaries. -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Fourth law of computing: Anything that can go wro .signature: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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