AMIOPEN: Linux, free software and its industry. (Was: Loki Software seems to have filed for bankruptcy.)

[Mike Coleman]

Monty Harder <lists at kc.rr.com> writes:
>   So how's this for a scenario: A company installs modified GPLed software
> on computers that it owns, but leases to customers.  Have they "distributed"
> anything?

Yes.  (IMO, but IANAL.)

If you're a commercial entity and you're making a number of copies
proportional to the size of your customer base, and putting it on machines
they have physical control over, that sure sounds like distribution.

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