Linked by Michael Valentine on Mon 28th Mar 2005 19:49 UTC
I decided to write this review to provide a quick inside to the new Linspire 5.0 released on March 15th, 2005. The review will determine the use of Linspire 5.0 in a SOHO (Small Office Home Office) Environment. The download was free for me since I'm a current CNR subscriber. UPDATE: Another Linspire review, and the Linspire 5.0 Live CD is now available for free download.
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As I read in the GPL, Linspire, and any other Linux vendor, is only obligated to directly send modified source code to the 'originator,' of the source code that they modified.
Since Linspire does make the source code available as the previous links show, I don't understand the hostile tone of your earlier statements. To argue that they don't provide a way to obtain a CD directly from them (or image) that contains all of the source code is somewhat trivial.
I don't see any Linux vendor that doesn't include the source on CD as violating the spirit or intent of the GPL, as you suggested. As long as they make it "AVAILABLE" (minus any copyrighted material), I believe they've fulfilled their obligation.
Even if it's only made available via an FTP site.