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Why shouldn't they have to comply with this? If you are going to distribute software in compliance with the GPL, then you need to fully comply. DamnSmallLinux requires that I pay for him to mail me a CD with the source code on it. Why should I have to deal with that? Do I have to pay for a copy of all the versions? That would get expensive for me. Did DSL's team have to do this to get the knoppix source code that they based their distro on? What goes around comes around. If you enjoy the ease of downloading the source, you shouldn't require me to pay to get it, it should be available for me to download your modified versions as well. Otherewise, work on stuff with the BSD license or other license. The GPL was designed to allow people to see what you have done, and not having it available for me to download is not ocmpliance. Having the source available in compressed format doesn't take that much space, and the bandwidth requirement would be low since it wouldn't be accessed as often. Maybe someone should offer to be a source code repository similar to what sourceforge does.

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