On Mar 24, 2007, "Luis Villa" <luis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I believe non-commercial mirrors are not required to keep source. They > need only "accompany [the Program] with the information [they] > received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code." > (Sec. 3(c)). IANAL, but Fedora distributes code under 3(a) (sources along with binaries), not 3(b), so third-parties don't get to use 3(c), they must use either 3(a) or 3(b). Using 3(a) means Fedora can blow away anything it carries any time it wants, no further requirements. Using 3(b) would mean we'd have to keep, at least internally, the corresponding sources of GPLed and LGPLed code in every binary released package, for at least 3 years after we take it out of the download site, just in case someone asks us for it. AFAIK, mirrors who carry our binaries without sources enter precisely this kind of obligation. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
