Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 21:50:52 04/28/02
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On April 28, 2002 at 18:38:33, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On April 28, 2002 at 18:33:09, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On April 28, 2002 at 15:20:19, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>On April 28, 2002 at 14:56:36, Wybe K. wrote: >>> >>>>Ok, but how to handle this links ? i;;egal ? >>>>http://www.gambitchess.com/progr.htm >>>>http://www.szachy.pl/programy/index.html >>> >>>If the author has given permission, it is legal of course, >>>but I doubt if all programs that are on that page are >>>'cleared' of copyright. >>> >>>For example, the WinBoard download on the second page >>>is a straight violation of the GPL. >> >> >> >>Why is it in violation of the GPL??? > > 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, >under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of >Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: > > a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable > source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections > 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, > > b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three > years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your > cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete > machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be > distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium > customarily used for software interchange; or, > > c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer > to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is > allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you > received the program in object code or executable form with such > an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) > >Neither of those three are met. > >-- >GCP OK, I see. But it's easy anyway to do a search on "Winboard" at Yahoo and find the sources in less than one minute... So I would say that's a minor violation in regard of other possible violations on this page... :) Christophe
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