[ILUG] GPL query - what constitutes "distribute"

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:55:30PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Owen O' Shaughnessy thought:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> If I do remote work on someone elses computer, and to carry out that
> work, I install a GPL'd application for my own use, am I distributing
> software and thus required to provided sources to the other pc's
> owner?
 
yep.  Or provide a URL to where the sources are published.  Actually, now
that I come to think of it, probably not unless you modified the program.

Conor
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