Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265166AbTFYXEK (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:04:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265173AbTFYXEK (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:04:10 -0400 Received: from hq.pm.waw.pl ([195.116.170.10]:29901 "EHLO hq.pm.waw.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265166AbTFYXEG (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:04:06 -0400 To: Roger Larsson Cc: 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> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: 25 Jun 2003 01:26:59 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200306242025.27761.roger.larsson@skelleftea.mail.telia.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 894 Lines: 15 Roger Larsson writes: > 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. There is no problem with that. Still, the company may choose not to release the product at all. But, if it does, anyone (any customer) can make that software public, as permitted by the license. -- Krzysztof Halasa Network Administrator - 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/