Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!bungia!cimcor!mike From: mike@cimcor.mn.org (Michael Grenier) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Re: Questions about "Free Software Foundation" (long) Message-ID: <14@cimcor.mn.org> Date: 29 Sep 89 10:51:15 GMT References: <110004@gore.com> Organization: Grenier & friends, Forest Lake, MN Lines: 22 From article <110004@gore.com>, by jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore): = / comp.lang.c++ / ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) / Sep 28, 1989 / => Have I given these diffs to anyone? No way; I'm not going to get lumbered => for the next three years with the obligation to send the FULL sources to => ANYONE AT ALL who asks. (That's what the CopyLeft demands, friends.) = = A pity you subjected yourself to so much trouble based on this false premise... = = You DO NOT have to distribute anything to "anyone at all who asks", only to = those people to whom you distribute the corresponding binaries. Furthermore, you can charge a reasonable fee for the act of distribution. You may also charge a fee to provide a warranty for the resulting new code that you fixed. In the worst case, you should be able to pay someone to sit a computer and generate copies for distribution as well as running to the post office with the disks by charging the fee as described in section 3 and under section 4.2 of the GNU Public License, terms and conditions. -Mike Grenier mike@cimcor.mn.org