<html><head><base href="x-msg://529/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">OK. Looks like you may have got me there. I guess this is why GPLv3 clarifies this aspect a bit.<div><br></div><div>It hadn't dawned on me that <a href="http://maemo.org">maemo.org</a> actually complied with 3a and that there was actually no written offer.</div><div><br></div><div>Darren<br><div><br></div><div> </div><div><div><div><div>On 23 Mar 2010, at 00:20, Attila Csipa wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="font-family: 'DejaVu Sans'; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; ">On Tuesday 23 March 2010 00:39:09 Darren Long wrote:<br>> However, in the general case where the source and the executable are not<br>> the same, I believe that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://maemo.org">maemo.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>would be obliged to continue to make the<br>> source available, for at least 3 years.<br><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></div>Now, I might just be grossly misinformed or misinterpreting the legalese, but to me it sounds like the GPL (at least v2) brings into play the 3 year requirement IF and ONLY IF you choose to provide the sources through a written offer (instead of accompanying the binaries through neighbouring links, which is actually what<a href="http://maemo.org">maemo.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>does).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></div>---<br><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><br></div><span style="font-weight: 600; ">3.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-weight: 600; ">one</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of the following:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><span style="font-weight: 600; ">a)</span> Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, </div><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><span style="font-weight: 600; ">b)</span> 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, </div><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; "><span style="font-weight: 600; ">c)</span> Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) </p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px; ">-</p>_______________________________________________<br>maemo-developers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:maemo-developers@maemo.org">maemo-developers@maemo.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers">https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>