Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 11:53:52 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199809021553.LAA15792@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <m0zEE4W-000S5dC@inti.gov.ar> (salvador@inti.gov.ar)
Subject: Re: egcs-1.1
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> You are wrong DJ,

I talk with RMS about this often.  I'm not wrong.

> what GPL asks is that you *must* provide some way that allows the
> user to get the sources, but it can be even normal mail, and you can
> even charge the cost of it to the user.

 "If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering
  access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent
  access to copy the source code from the same place counts as
  distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not
  compelled to copy the source along with the object code."

Same place means same ftp server.

> You don't need to upload the sources and the binaries together but
> if somebody asks for the sources you must send it to this person.

 "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,"

You can't FTP a *written* offer.  It has to be on paper.