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Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 15:18 GMT
Peter Gordon

What has a CD or disk got to do with it?

"a problem caused by an archaic notion of distribution as being tied to a diskette or CD"

If I was to make my own branch of a GPL webserver called "Super Banana" and hosted a website on Super Banana, people could retrieve webpages from my Super Banana server. However, I havent given the binaries of Super Banana to anyone, be it by disk or CD, *or even over the internet*, so would I have to make the changes public?

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