----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Gehlker" <chris@GCCodeFactory.biz>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: Which distro for the enterprise now?


> >
> > Hrm.  That's not what section 2 says:
> > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
>
> I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one confused by this. That section
> doesn't mean what you think it means.
>
> See
> <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic>


It means exactly what I thought it meant.  If you release (i.e. publicly) a
modified version, you have to release the source for the modification as
well.  Private use is not covered here.  But private use typically neither
harms nor aids the F/OSS community.

Thomas