Update: eVrit e-book Reader

[Oleg Goldshmidt]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:14 PM, geoffrey mendelson
<geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 21, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote:
>>
>> What I mean is, if someone is selling a device running some unmodified version
>> of Linux, and a couple other unmodified programs, isn't it enough for them
>> to just say that, and you can get it from those projects' own official sites?

IANAL either. You've been warned.

Section 6d of GPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) says you can
refer to a repository operated by a 3rd party. The details (e.g., URL)
must be delivered to your customer. The tricky part is the clause
(inside 6d) that says, "you remain obligated to ensure that it is
available" ["it" is the server on which the source is hosted].

This mean, as far as I understand, that _you_ are responsible for
maintaining availability even if, say, the original provider
disappears from the face of the Earth. You can do, e.g., the
following.

1. Provide object code from your website.
2. Provide the source code URL from the same website.
3. Keep a copy.
4. If the original source is moved then change item 2 above.
5. If the original source disappears altogether put your copy
somewhere and change item 2 above.

NB, as far as I understand it you cannot simply give the original URL
in the documentation you provided a customer - you must have a means
to maintain the pointer if it changes. If you do what is described
above you can provide your URL.

You also have the "written offer" option (Sections 6b and 6c).

> Or since the eVrit is just a PanDigital Novel with NDS' DRM software (which I'm sure is not open source) and some publicly available Hebrew fonts, can they just refer you to PanDigital?

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