28 Jan
2008
28 Jan
'08
noon
Hallo,
Marek hat gesagt: // Marek wrote:
Here's one definition of distribute:To divide
among several or many;
to deal out; to
apportion; to allot.
Let' have an example:
If i take ardour, throw out everything GUI related plus a couple of
other things, make some modifications in order to
make it work with a custom front panel with a couple of hardware
buttons, a couple of hardware sliders and a lcd panel in order to
build a 16 track rack based recorder,
and make the sources free, would call this distributing ardour?
Of course: Then I distribute a modified version of Ardour. As long as
the rest of the GPL is fullfilled (sources available etc.) this is
perfectly fine and covered by the GPL. It doesn't matter that I chose
a very expensive means of distributing Ardour (stored inside of a full
keyboard) and not just a floppy disk: I am still distributing copies
of (a modified) Ardour here.
It has already been said: Tens of thousands of W-LAN routers in the
world do exactly this, and to my knowledge none of the vendors was
ever accused of breaking the GPL because they took money - the were
indicted only because they didn't provide source code as required by
the GPL.
Ciao
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Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__