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Even GPL2 didn't allow that > 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
by endgame 5y ago
Even GPL2 didn't allow that
> 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,
- froh 5y agooh of course it did. neither gpl forces you to put your software source to a public server. all it says is: if I give you binaries under gpl, and only then, I also have to give you the source, and you then have the right to modify and redistribute, under the same terms. if I give the binaries to you under gpl 3, then in addition I have to provide you with tools to install your updated software into your specific drm protected device (and you're explicitly good wrt parents I may hold) neither gpl 2 not gpl 3 anywhere talk about making the source code (or the software) available to anybody free of charge. edit: the key is 'corresponding', with paragraph 3 being about software distribution. 'any third oarty' in the quoted clause b of paragraph 3 references your recipients of the software, not anybody and their neighbor. the meaning is: if you give someone the software, you also give them the source.