Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263496AbTFYA3D (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:29:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263573AbTFYA3D (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:29:03 -0400 Received: from warden-p.diginsite.com ([208.29.163.248]:6335 "HELO warden.diginsite.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263496AbTFYA3A (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:29:00 -0400 From: David Lang To: Zack Gilburd Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:41:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: developers and GPL in products (Was: Re: GPL violations by wi reless manufacturers) In-Reply-To: <200306241727.51092.zack@tehunlose.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-ID: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1718 Lines: 49 no, you have to make source available to anyone you give the binary to. you can't prevent that person from giving the source to the world, but you are not required to. they could compress the source and stick it on the driver CD that they bundle with the product and you would not be allowed to duplicate that CD (it contains commercial programs), but you could copy the source off of the CD and put it on your website. David Lang On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Zack Gilburd wrote: > Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:27:51 -0700 > From: Zack Gilburd > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: developers and GPL in products (Was: Re: GPL violations by > wi reless manufacturers) > > On Tuesday 24 June 2003 11:25, Roger Larsson wrote: > > A customer of a product B that uses GPL project A can > > require the source for A. But what about the primary developer? > > Suppose the company charges an obscene amount of money for > > the product (that might be an enhanced project A, like a patch to > allow > > compilation on Win32) - the primary developer might not afford to buy > that > > product. > > Not exactly. By my understanding of the GPL, if you plan on > distributing > binaries outside of your corporation, you MUST make the source available > to > any and all third parties. In adition, you must bundle the source code > with > the binary. > > That's just what I have read from the GPL -- IANAL. > > -- > Zack Gilburd > http://tehunlose.com > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/