Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 25th Aug 2006 09:09 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"The cipherfunk web site, which made extra packages available to Ubuntu and MEPIS users, was shut down in response to complaints from Ubuntu team members Matthew Garrett and Philipp Kern. It is my understanding they alleged that cipherfunk was not making modified GPLed source code available in a timely fashion. You can read about it the website." "Well, the GNU GPL states as part of Section 3 of the licence that I must provide source code on request for no more than the cost of physically performing the distribution. Given that the host this box is on actually costs me 110.95AUD every 30 days to run, 9.90AUD, as nice as that is - still will cost me over 100AUD to distribute the code at all." Update: As Matthew Garret pointed out in the comments, he wrote his side of the story on his blog.
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2006-06-19
There is another side. It is clearly spelled out in the GPL and the guy was simply informed by matthew and philip that he wasn't in compliance. What other side do we need? Those guys are the copyright holders they have a right to inform someone that they are not acting in accordance to the license.
The cipherphunk website (original) is all the proof that anyone needs. You cannot offer a free download and yet charge for the source.
Is there another side to this?