On Sat, 15 May 2004, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Sat, 15 May 2004, Conor Daly wrote:
>> > If company claims EUR1,000,000,000 to be the cost price, they are
> > in compliance with GPL but get to keep the source hidden.
>> No, because €1,000,000,000 is obviously not the cost of physically
> performing source distribution. (if we're talking about 3b).
Damn, I must be incoherent. Conor manages to nail the point on his
first attempt. Nice one. If this interpretation is correct, then
there *is* an upper limit to the price of access to source code (which,
as I recall, was my original question).
Maybe I sound pissed off, but it feels like I spent the last week
trying to ask a single scalpel-sharp technical question, and getting
cheerfully and repeatedly deluged with GPL enlightenment in response
instead.
I've been guilty of the same often enough but I can't say that being on
the receiving end has been much fun.
Ronan
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