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On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape
<kapil@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,
(Emphasis provided by me.) This is why the customisation provided by
RedHat (which is extensive!) is available to the people who
distribute CentOS --- all that is not available is the branding.
What does it refer to? Who gets the offer?
My understanding is that, recipient of your software (derivative of GPLed
software) gets the offer of Free Source Code. *not everyone. *Correct me if
I am wrong.