FOSS Hole

Matthew Garrett is being persecuted on OS News regarding a largely polite e-mail he sent to a disabled GPL violator. He cited section 3 of the GPL which states source code must be available. The breacher got in a huff and shut his website down.

Well, I was studying the GPL and he missed section 13c:

You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form without accompanying source code provided that your situation falls under one of the following:

• you have extreme difficulties doing the most basic of motor skills these days
• you dislike people that have forgotten what their parents taught them about manners
• you have a bad taste in your mouth
• your mother has various cancers
• bandwidth can be a bit expensive
• you find the diff tool quite complicated

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