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[] Regarding Re: GP Library Licence Question;
[] david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:

    djc> In Reply to this Note From: <Steve Simmons>
    djc> [text deleted]

    >   [you must] accompany the work [that uses the library] with the
    >   complete corresponding machine-readable source code for the
    >   Library including whatever changes were used in the work . . .
    >   and, if the work is an executable linked with the Library,
    >   with the complete machine-readable "work that uses the
    >   Library", as object code and/or source code, so that the user
    >   can modify the Library and then relink to produce a modified
    >   executable containing the modified Library."

    >Note it explicitly says one must either distribute (a) source or
    >(b) source and object.  This is source and object for the work,
    >not just for the library.

    djc> You must ship the source for the library.  You must ship the
    djc> source OR object for the work that uses the library.  The
    djc> term and/or is interpreted by logicians as an inclusive or,
    djc> which makes the "and" redundant except to distinguish it from
    djc> an exclusive or.

Please note that the actual text of Section 6 allows you to choose
*one of* a number of different options, of which the quoted option is
just the first.  Of particular interest here, I would think, are the
second and third options, which state:

        b) Accompany the work with a written offer, valid for at
        least three years, to give the same user the materials
        specified in Subsection 6a, above, for a charge no more
        than the cost of performing this distribution.

        c) If distribution of the work is made by offering access to copy
        from a designated place, offer equivalent access to copy the above
        specified materials from the same place.

So you don't even have to ship the object code and/or source code with
the work, you just have to make sure customers understand that they
may obtain it at a reasonable distribution fee (part b) or via anon
ftp or something similar (part c).  Very likely 90% of customers won't
ever bother you for it...
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                                                                paul
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