Can we?

[David Woolley]

Mark Doliner wrote:

> 
> Yeah that should be totally fine.  Pidgin is licensed under the GPL,
> and is therefore free to distribute.  If you make any modifications
> you're obligated to offer the source code to those modifications to
> anyone who you've offered the binary.

I don't believe that they have to modify the code to come under that 
obligation.  Section 3 applies to executables distributed under both 
section 1 and section 2.

They would be strongly advised to include the source code on the CD, as 
that fulfills their obligation with no further hassle.



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