[OSM-dev] GPL stupidity

[nicolas vigier]

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > > - 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, 
> > 
> > Some projects put the GPL on the server as well, so people can download it the 
> > same way as they download the source. 
> 
> 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.

It's the same, you can download it at the same place where you
downloaded the software.

> > > and would anyone of you, when asked for the text of the 
> > > GPL, actually respond with "write to the FSF"?
> > 
> > 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?"
> 
> 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?

No, because the license is available on the SVN.