Re: LYNX-DEV Supression of messages in Lynx

[David Woolley]

> 
> At 09:39 +0900 1998-02-19, Nelson Henry Eric wrote:
> >If you do decide to modify and customize Lynx to your specific needs,
> >do not renege on your obligation to make your source code public.
> 
> There is no such obligation; under the GPL, a recipient of a derivitive
> work cannot be prevented from distributing the work further, but there is
> no requirement that they do distribute it further.

On the other hand he is supplying this to customers, not just using it
in house, so he must supply the source code to those customers (on demand,
at copying and distribution cost (possibly cost plus), for five years,
or more easily by including it with the product).  That's only the
source code in executables derived from Lynx, not that of the rest of
the product.

He must also supply the GPL text and make the customers aware of it.
In many environments they will then ignore it and treat the whole package
as a single product, but that's their choice, until they try to transfer
or redistribute it.

There does appear to be a misundertanding here, as reflected in other recent
articles, that the GPL in some way guarantees that there will be one true
Lynx