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Yep. "available on request" is perfectly allowed, there's no requirement that it be on a publicly available webpage.
by Karunamon 5y ago
Yep. "available on request" is perfectly allowed, there's no requirement that it be on a publicly available webpage.
- teddyh 5y agoNo, the offer of source code must be explicit, not just available if anyone happens to ask.
- dspillett 5y agoThe offer yes, but the code does not need to be that easy to publicly access. Of course once the first person to request the source via that offer gets it (assuming they come good in that respect) it might be made more easily available.
- teddyh 5y agoSure, but did anyone installing the TikTok streaming software get such an explicit offer? If not, then, hey, GPL violation.
- DannyBee 5y agoThis is totally wrong. It must be an explicit offer for source. " 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: ... 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, " Note accompany it. The only exception is this: "If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code. "