Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263823AbTFYDIG (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:08:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264043AbTFYDIG (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:08:06 -0400 Received: from yossman.net ([209.162.234.20]:30215 "EHLO yossman.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263823AbTFYDIE (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:08:04 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF91555.9050208@yossman.net> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:21:57 -0400 From: Brian Davids User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robins Tharakan CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: developers and GPL in products (Was: Re: GPL violations by wireless manufacturers) References: <3EF83FAF.24578.38A16F@localhost> <3EF85024.4477.78EB14@localhost> <200306242025.27761.roger.larsson@skelleftea.mail.telia.com> <200306241727.51092.zack@tehunlose.com> <1056502051.15687.33.camel@zeus.simple.com> In-Reply-To: <1056502051.15687.33.camel@zeus.simple.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1214 Lines: 33 Robins Tharakan wrote: > Therefore, if Company A "sells" the package to anybody outside the > company then it has to "make available" the source, including people > like the primary developer. > > But i think the second part of Zack's reply might not be right. > The company A only needs to make "available" the source. it doesnt > "have" to bundle the source with the binaries... (maybe make it > available on the website or make some such provisions...) There is a choice of ONE of THREE options. Company A may EITHER: 1. include the source OR 2. accompany the binary with a written offer for the source OR 3. if it is a noncommercial RE-distribution of the binary, include the offer that was received in terms with #2. If the binary is downloaded from somewhere, having the source available at the same place counts as #1. IANAL, but that's how it all boils down for me. Hopefully that'll help someone understand that part a little better. Brian Davids - 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/