written offer valid for any third party Re: OSI enforcement?

Ernest Prabhakar ernest.prabhakar at gmail.com
Fri Jan 11 18:36:06 UTC 2008


Hi Philippe,

On Jan 11, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> Ernest Prabhakar [mailto:ernest.prabhakar at gmail.com] wrote:
>>>> Philippe Verdy wrote:
>>>>> Question:
>>>>> 	What does this "written offer valid for any third party" mean?  
>>>>> Does
>>>>> that mean everyone in the world can get the source to any GPL'ed
>>>>> program no
>>>>> matter what?
>>
>> I am glad you made the effort to phrase this discussion the form of a
>> question/answer.  I invite you (or anyone else) to collect the  
>> answers
>> into a short summary we can post on the website:
>>
>> https://osi.osuosl.org/wiki/help/license
>
> I won't. The Question/Answers were copied from the given source on  
> the FSF
> web site.

Ah, my bad.

Perhaps someone here can help collect a list of external licensing  
FAQs that we can point to from the OSI site, to reduce duplication?

-- Ernie P.






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