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Re: Mass Distribution Without Source, Bittorrent
- From: Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>
- To: bigone at qon dot lao dot net
- Cc: cygwin-licensing at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:11:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: Mass Distribution Without Source, Bittorrent
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- Reply-to: Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>
2006/1/31, big one <bigone@qon.lao.net>:
> I read about the GPL: the shop should provide the source code with the binary.
>
> I plan to distribute Cygwin free of charge to several thousands local schools, universities, user groups, research/scientific institute, magazine etc.
>
> There are 5 ISO CD (600 Mb): 2 binary and 3 source code.
Why not one DVD?
Faster to copy and cheaper also.
> Is it possible to distribute only 2 binary CD and the users can download the 3 source code CD from bittorrent/local FTP/mirrors?
>
> This will save the production and shipment cost.
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> Is this possible/legal?
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