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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 13:52:25 +0000
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DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
 
> > 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.

Looks like you are right, becasuse "written" looks like on paper, but with 
the current technologies (PGP signed documents, etc) and the current 
globalization you can create electronic documents as valid as the ones on 
paper.

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