GnuPG distribution - Windows

Jeff Jeff.GNUPG@mvtnet.com
Wed Oct 10 18:46:01 2001


Samuel,

Notice that Section 3 of the GPL license says you must do ONE of the 
following.  So if you provide a way for the customer to download source 
(ie from ftp.gnupg.org you have satisfied section 3.

Jeff

Samuel }slund wrote:


>
>On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Thomas Bader wrote:
>
>>* Samuel }slund <samuel@update.uu.se> [011010 13:30]:
>>
>>>I am going to distribute GnuPG with a program I make for windows.
>>>Now to avoid having to organize source distribution I will include the
>>>GnuPG source on the disk with my program.
>>>Is the 'gnupg-1.0.6.tar.gz' all that is needed to fulfill the Licence
>>>requirement?
>>>
>>Yes, it's possible to do so.
>>
>
>OK, good.
>
>>But you don't have to distribute any source code at all.
>>You only must make sure, that your users get access to the
>>source code for free (or, only at cost of sales).
>>
>>Pointing them to ftp.gnupg.org (if you use an unmodified
>>version of gpg) is enough, to fulfill the license.
>>
>
>Section 3 of the GPL seems to contradict this.
>Subsection c is only valid if you do not distribute things comercially.
>
>//Samuel
>
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