On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:22 PM, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Khalid, all of your responses seem to focus around some direct relationship between the 1st and 3rd party. And Brent's points have been to avoid random, unknown, 3rd parties from having a claim upon him.<br>
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Now, I do take your point that it may be easier or simpler to simply have it on a web site. But that also creates a requirement to perpetually maintain that web site. While including the source puts a limit on things.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Think about what the practice is out there already:<br><br>For example, if we have Vendor (V), First buyer (F) and Second buyer (S). Assume V is Toshiba or Panasonic with a wide screen TV, or Netgear with a router. Both products have a Linux kernel and some custom stuff.<br>
<br>F buys the hardware from V. F is not technically inclined and has no need nor interest in fiddling with the hardware internals nor the software.<br><br>F then sells the hardware to S. S is technically inclined, or has a project in mind. What does S do? Ask F for the source code? F does not even know what source code is, let alone has a copy of it. S visits the web site that V has setup and downloads the source code. <br>
<br>V cannot say: "you didn't get the hardware from us, did ya? We have no relationship with you. Go ask F for the source code".<br><br>This is not the only use case. Suppose F modified the code? F has to make available the modifications (either on request, or downloadable from somewhere).<br>
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And, the web site can be created once sufficient mass has accumulated. IF it ever does. At the least, the act of writing a program and giving it to a friend shouldn't obligate me to perpetually maintain a web site.</blockquote>
<div><br>Or just put the code on <a href="http://github.com">github.com</a>, Google Code, or SourceForge and be done with it. It will be there for far longer than you care to run a web site.<br></div></div>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br>
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