Advertising Clauses in Licenses

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Mon Jan 21 08:08:48 UTC 2002


Lawrence E. Rosen scripsit:

> As for the GPL, where does it say that you can't distribute source via a
> website?  As I read it, you must merely distribute source code "on a
> medium customarily used for software interchange."  I now get almost all
> of my software, including proprietary programs, through downloads.

See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DistributeWithSourceOnInternet
et seqq.

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