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On 6/28/06, Mivz <mivz@×××××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> How free is free software if you need a lawyer and a expensive server |
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> just to be able to publish your addition under your own name? |
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With the GPL v2, you don't need a server at all. You're perfectly |
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entitled to distribute the code on DVD (for example), for a fee. You |
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don't have to keep the source online at all. |
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If the GPL v3 does require you to keep the source online, that'd be a |
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shame. Relying on third parties (such as SourceForge, or Berlios) to |
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host your source online is risky ... if they disappear, *you* are |
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still liable to keep your source code online (presumably the three |
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year rule still applies). If the third party disappears, taking older |
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versions of the code with it, what then for you? Technically, you're |
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in violation. |
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The idea that everyone has cheap hosting available to them is sadly an |
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incomplete view of the world :( |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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