[syslinux] SysLinux GPL license violation

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Oct 21 09:46:38 PDT 2003


Clifford Wolf wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> 
>>In my opinion as copyright holder of SYSLINUX -- and I believe most GPL
>>authors including the FSF would agree with me -- these days "a medium
>>customarily used for software interchange" includes HTTP and FTP over
>>the Internet.  Therefore, what you need to do is to:
> 
> 
> I did talk with rms about the topic a few years ago. He told me that they
> thought about including that in GPL v3 but decided not to do it because of
> the bad internet connections in developing countries.
> 

I think singling out a particular medium is probably a bad idea. 
"Medium customarily used for software interchange" convers regional 
variations; if you were selling your thing in Laos, for example, 
Internet would really not suffice.

	-hpa




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