[cc-licenses] Parallel Distribution Statement

Francesco Poli frx at firenze.linux.it
Sat Dec 2 08:21:19 EST 2006


On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:41:35 +0000 rob at robmyers.org wrote:

[...]
> Thank you for explaining this.

You are welcome!  :)

> 
> To my mind this is clearly a weakness in the license that has been 
> offset by the
> current "large repository" development model, but I'm not sure how it
> could be tackled better.

It's not a weakness, it's quite the opposite instead!

Firstoff, from a practical point of view, just imagine the
inconveniences that the license would cause if every and each user who
downloads the binary ISO images of a GNU/Linux distro were *compelled*
to also download the source ISO images!

I could go on describing the problems that such a requirement would
cause, but we're going rather OT for this thread, and hence I will stop
here.


P.S.: I should have sent this reply to the list, rather than to you
directly; I'm doing so now (sorry if you receive basically the same
answer for the second time...).  I would prefer that you reply to the
list only, rather than Cc:ing me, as this should help me to avoid
messing things up in the future...  Thanks.


-- 
But it is also tradition that times *must* and always
do change, my friend.   -- from _Coming to America_
..................................................... Francesco Poli .
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