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<pre wrap="">Should:
"You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
02110-1301, USA."
Be changed to something like:
"A copy of the GNU General Public License for this program is
available at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org">www.openstreetmap.org</a>; You are commited to the latest
version of the license"
?
In the Netherlands, a large company recently won a courtcase where a client sued them for some issue, he claimed, that came from this company having their license information online.
My hope is refering to online content will get the same value as sending it along or using good old mail.
(excuse me for not using the proper grammar, I am no native english speaker)</pre>
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nicolas vigier schreef:
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, 08 Nov 2007, Frederik Ramm wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
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<pre wrap="">- have you thought of what you're writing there? If someone downloads
source code from our SVN, in what way "should" they "have received" a
copy of the GPL,
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<pre wrap="">Some projects put the GPL on the server as well, so people can download it the
same way as they download the source.
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<pre wrap="">The GPL is in numerous places on our SVN, even in the root directory,
but you do not "receive it" with a program that you download unless
you explicitly ask for it.
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It's the same, you can download it at the same place where you
downloaded the software.
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<pre wrap="">and would anyone of you, when asked for the text of the
GPL, actually respond with "write to the FSF"?
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<pre wrap="">If you do not receive a copy, you can complain about the distributor to the
FSF. Isn't that the meaning of "write to the FSF?"
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<pre wrap="">Oh, I never read it that way. So the license expects me to send
physical mail to the FSF whenever I check out a file from our SVN?
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No, because the license is available on the SVN.
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