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No, you cannot add any restriction to asking for sources nor to redistribution. You can only ask in exchange for sources for the cost of physically distributin
by sudosysgen 3y ago
No, you cannot add any restriction to asking for sources nor to redistribution.
You can only ask in exchange for sources for the cost of physically distributing the source, nothing more, and in that case you must offer it to anyone asking at all, even if they do not have the binary. Otherwise, you have to distribute it for free on the same medium as the binary itself.
You can not either add any restriction to the act of distributing the program or it's sources. The GPLv2 says for example "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.". The question is whether or not terminating the subscription is a restriction, which it totally is to any reasonable reading by a layperson, and may be as well in front of a judge.
- mistrial9 3y agoviscerally I would like to support what you say, but it makes little sense with a broader interpretation of "costs" .. IANAL but there might be some "reasonable" added there, and markets work with some bit of extra in places. It seems like a market negotiation is OK. The value of the code has to exist in really different economies.. London to Algiers so to speak. So there has to be some room for different kinds of deals IMHO