Re: Looking for an open source license..

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   "Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote:
   > 
   >    Or dear. How much will you pay me for a CD full of GPL'd binaries
   >    (and no source code at all) which I'm going to distribute to you
   >    under contractual agreement imposing forbearance from exercising
   >    the rights granted to you under the GPL by the copyright owners?
   > 
   > You are free to distribute a CD or any other media containing GPLed
   > software.  The GPL explicitly allows this.  But you have to do one of
   > the following if you do so, from section 3 of the GNU GPL version 2:

   I don't give a damn what it says. I'm not a party in GPL contract 
   regarding works embodied on that CD. 

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