[CLUE-Tech] GPL loopholes

[Angelo Bertolli]

I was always curious as to how certain distros got away with not making 
the source available to their product as per the GPL.  I went to 
Libranet's site and I couldn't find anything.  I found an old version of 
an ISO at linuxiso.org.  I thought the GPL stated that if you 
distributed a program under the GPL you must also provide the source 
code.  These days it seems no one cares so much about source as they do 
about getting the binaries.

At any rate, I guess the GPL does not state how easy it needs to be to 
obtain the source code.  So there is one loophole.

Angelo

Joe Linux wrote:
> Mandrake 9.1 is pretty good, and perhaps RH 9.0 is okay too, but for 
> myself, I have decided on Libranet 2.8 because it has the most bells and 
> whistles for a person wanting a true user friendly personal computer 
> system.