Re: is this GPL v2 violation - konica-minolta or EFI ?

["art" <art@usfltd.com>]

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Jon Masters" <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Date:  Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:52:36 +0100

>On 4/19/06, art <art@usfltd.com> wrote:
>
>> is this GPL v2 violation - konica-minolta or EFI ?
>
>> << NO SOURCE CODE FOR LINUX >> on media/web
>
>Did you:
>
>a). Buy the product.
>b). Ask them for the source?
>
>Jon.
>

i have offer to buy the product - bizhub c351 with

product: option for konica-minolta bizhub c351
IC-402 Embedded Fiery Print Controller

operating system:
Linux

i call them to check if they will include source code
or offer me other option like in COPYING file

".......
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:

    a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
    source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
    1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,

    b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
    years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
    cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
    machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
    distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
    customarily used for software interchange; or,

    c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
    to distribute corresponding source code.  (This alternative is
    allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
    received the program in object code or executable form with such
    an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
......"

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