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Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:08:33 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: GPL Violation of 'sveasoft' with GPL Linux Kernel/Busybox +code
From: "David Rees" <drees@greenhydrant.com>
To: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> So it looks like "if you exersize your right for the software in quesion
> I terminate the contract we have entered into" as opposed to "I will not
> extend your contract beyond initial term".
>
> Isn't that an additional restriction? My rights for updates are revoked
> if I distribute GPLed code.

You are not entitled to future updates under the GPL.  You are only
entitled to the source code for the binaries that you received.  If he
doesn't send you any binaries, you don't get the source for them.

-Dave

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