Fedora Board Recap 2007-NOV-13

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 05:57:10PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:43:54 +0100
>> Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> wrote:
>>
>>> GPLv2 doesn't say though that once the binary is released originally, 
>>> the clock starts ticking all over again each time it is redistributed
>>> by a third party that uses 3c. A written offer can easily contain a
>>> time frame consistent with the three years described in the license,
>>> possibly extended to 3 years + a release's lifecycle.
>> That's your interpretation.  Are you a lawyer?
> 
> Without putting words in people's mouths, including a time frame is
> consistent with my conversation with Brett Smith of the FSF.
> 

So has it been with some people I've talked to -can't think of their 
names right now. The overall impression was though, that the counter 
does not reset itself because of some third party taking you up on the 
original offer. Hence the thought it might be worthwhile to investigate.

-Jeroen