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Uh, you is whoever they get the program from. It says that. That's what 'each time you redistribute means". It means if i redistribute to someone, this is what

Uh, you is whoever they get the program from. It says that. That's what 'each time you redistribute means". It means if i redistribute to someone, this is what happens. Recipient is whoever i redistribute to. So if redhat redistributes (through their website) to vmware, redhat is you, and vmware is recipient. You don't get to pin You to be a specific person just because it comes out the way you like it. The license says what it says. (and you can't anyway since this would ruin the rest of the GPL ...)

hugoroy 12y ago
> "you is whoever they get the program from" That's not how it works. "You" is, consistently throughout the GPL, whoever gets the program under the GPL license, and that license is between "You" and the copyright holders on the program (i.e. the licensors). The person who is "you" can, in another situation, be a licensor or mere redistributor, but that's irrelevant to the legal relationship at stake here (i.e the relationship between the copyright holders and a person who failed to comply with the GPL).