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From: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Subject: Re: blatant GPL violation of ext2 and reiserfs filesystem drivers
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 13:41:56 +1100
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Cc: Scott Mansfield <thephantom@mac.com>,
	Bryan Henderson <hbryan@us.ibm.com>,
	Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org>,
	"Robert W. Fuller" <garbageout@sbcglobal.net>,
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	LKML Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@quelen.inf.utfsm.cl>
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Horst von Brand wrote:
> Scott Mansfield <thephantom@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>Developer replies that the source code will be provided
>>>>only to paying customers:
> 
> 
>>>Not really.  Developer does make the bizarre statement that "paid
>>>customers" are entitled to source code,
> 
> 
> Read the GPL: You get the binary, you are entitled to the source. You have
> no binary, wellll...
> 
> Sure, you can get the binary (legally!) from somebody else, and then you
> are entitled to source.

But the obligation to provide you with the source is on the person who 
gave you the binary not the person who sold him the binary.

-- 
Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
  -- Ambrose Bierce