> I think that's stretching the intent beyond the breaking point.
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> Providing a person access to a machine doesn't imply that they can copy whatever they want, otherwise most universities would now be sued into the ground by Adobe.
that may not be the intent, but what the license actually says is what actually matters. even if the copyright holder chooses not to enforce it, violating the license is illegal.
does placing a file on a publicly accessible web site imply that anyone who wants to can download the file?
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if you let someone use ssh to log into your machine and they have read permission on the binary, you're distributing that binary just as much as someone putting the binary on a web site is distributing it.
> I sincerely doubt that you're strapped for storage space. Storage space is affordable to anybody in 2008.
yeah, it's affordable to anyone who doesn't have to buy gas. or food.
> I don't understand this. Are you implying that you are distributing a program whenever someone will connect to your machine through a computer network? Are you implying that whenever a visitor goes to your computer that you are obligated to give them a copy of any GPL program that they execute?
any time someone uses ssh to connect to my server, they have access to quite a few binaries. sure, i chould chmod them all to 511 or something like that, but that's really a pain in the ass to do.
> You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code.
so if the person you got the source code from dies, you are responsible for making sure that people can still get the source code.
> 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.)
so you can't just download the source, compile it, install the binary, and then delete the source if you plan on letting anyone else ssh into your machine, unless you do the chmod thing like i already mentioned.