Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 29, 2006 04:51 AM
According to a copy of the GPL, the paragraph says:
"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,"
Emphasis added by me. Whether US$100 reflect my costs to physically perform the source distribution is a matter of calculation and the current circumstances.
Please note that some people may never pay, I may need to buy a CD burner to burn the disc, it will take some work to prepare the disc depending on how the original sources are stored, there's packaging, fees, maybe taxes, you need something to track the money, telephone calls, etc.
I don't know whether US$100 are a good guess. It might be less, it might be more. That probably also depends on where you live.
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Re:Play by the rules, plain and simple
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 29, 2006 04:51 AM"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,"
Emphasis added by me. Whether US$100 reflect my costs to physically perform the source distribution is a matter of calculation and the current circumstances.
Please note that some people may never pay, I may need to buy a CD burner to burn the disc, it will take some work to prepare the disc depending on how the original sources are stored, there's packaging, fees, maybe taxes, you need something to track the money, telephone calls, etc.
I don't know whether US$100 are a good guess. It might be less, it might be more. That probably also depends on where you live.
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