Re: Distributing a Fedora appliance

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On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:59:04 -0300,
> ÂFernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Mike Wohlgemuth <mjw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> If someone asks, I will provide the source. I donÂt believe anywhere in the
>> GPL it makes the explicit requirement to upload the sources to a public web
>> server.
>
> From: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
>
> 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under
> ÂSection 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1
> Âand 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
>
> Â Âa) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source
> Â Â Âcode, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2
> Â Â Âabove on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
> Â Âb) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to
> Â Â Âgive any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically
> Â Â Âperforming source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the
> Â Â Âcorresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections
> Â Â Â1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
> Â Âc) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to
> Â Â Âdistribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only
> Â Â Âfor noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in
> Â Â Âobject code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with
> Â Â ÂSubsection b above.)
>
> Note that since Fedora distributes under clause a (see:
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2009-September/037703.html)
> you can't use clause c to pass on the offer that Fedora doesn't make.

Are trying to tell me that I should install al srpms inside the VM?.

Are then all images on virtualboximages.org in defiance of the
GPL?.Seems a bit ridiculous to me.

When lawyers trump common sense, itÂs the time that I stop.

FC
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