On 02/23/2012 07:16 AM, John Dexter wrote: > On 23 February 2012 12:07, Phil Turmel <[email protected]> wrote: >> Finally, whatever the legality, it is at least rude to hijack an open- >> source app's website bandwidth to deliver source code to *your* users. > > Apart from the inherent problem of defining social etiquette within a > legal contract... if I distribute ffmpeg.exe _un-modified_, are the > users MY users or ffmpeg's users? If I _don't_ distribute it but tell > users they need to download it, then who is responsible?
The GPL is a license to distribute. The terms of distributing binary versions do not distinguish between modified and unmodified. (Section 6). Modifying the source, and then distributing, whether in source or binary form, has further requirements. (Section 5). http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html Phil _______________________________________________ Libav-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user
