Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!rutgers!apple!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!flute.cs.uiuc.edu!grunwald From: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Copyleft & Distribution Message-ID: Date: 27 Jul 89 15:06:22 GMT Sender: news@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu Reply-To: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 16 Several people have stated that, if you distribute a file linked with e.g., a copyleft library, then you must distribute your source to anyone who asks for it. Reading the Copyleft shows this to not be true; you must only distribute it to people to whom you distribute the binary files. From my understanding, you can still charge for the binary files and distribution costs of the source. You can also charge for installation, maintaince, documentation and training. Is all of this correct? I only want an answer from Len or someone at FSF with a clear understanding of this, not endless chatter. -- Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois (grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu)