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- Remmy, on 04/05/2008, -0/+3The GPL is an amazing thing. With the MPAA and the RIAA, we are sued for sharing their material. With GPL'd software, people are sued for not sharing it. How cool is that? I'd love to hear how this turns out. This guy is completely in the wrong.
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software
interchange; or,
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; or,
c) Accompany it 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.) - Philluminati, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1sorry, forgot to say ***** THE RIAA
- Philluminati, on 04/05/2008, -0/+1This has always been a grey area. Google runs loads of copies of Linux but isn't forced to open source their internal Google OS because they do not distribute it outside of the company. The argument holds for this guy as well just about since distributing means selling it to third parties or outsiders. If the nodes are part of the network in the same way that Google's computers are a part of their network then he's okay. It's just a bigger network. However it's a bit of a grey area because it's probably touted as a "free router" to customers which they technically own like a paid for goods. This one might be interesting.
- KevinJim, on 04/05/2008, -1/+2As far as I know the only movie with source code is The Matrix. But I can smell what the rock is cooking.
- TheBigRedDog, on 04/06/2008, -0/+0Note that "distributing" doesn't mean selling although selling generally implies distributing. As a SaaS Google has no problem with the GPLv2 as it stands but would have with the Affero GPLv3...
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