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From: Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>
To: David Rees <drees76@gmail.com>
Cc: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible gpl problem?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:31:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1156761069.24904.5.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72dbd3150608280022ud3b61b7re3eefd65498b863@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 00:22 -0700, David Rees wrote:
> On 8/27/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:
> > However, the lack of a freely downloadable version with no
> > support certainly seems to be a GPL violation to me.  It should be checked
> > out IMO.
> 
> Gene, this is not quite the right list for this discussion (have a
> look at http://gpl-violations.org/) and your understanding of the GPL
> is incorrect.
> 
> Just because a company doesn't have source freely downloadable on
> their website does not mean they are violating the GPL even if they
> are selling GPL licensed software. Only people who buy the GPL
> licensed software are entitled to a copy of the source of the binaries
> they receive.
as far as i understand, anyone who receieves a copy of the binary, is
entitled to the source
> 
> -Dave
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-28 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-28  6:59 Possible gpl problem? Gene Heskett
2006-08-28  7:22 ` David Rees
2006-08-28 10:31   ` Kasper Sandberg [this message]
2006-08-28 11:03     ` Sven-Haegar Koch
2006-08-28 11:11   ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-28 15:14     ` Gene Heskett
2006-08-29 13:57     ` David Schwartz
2006-09-02  5:23       ` David Woodhouse
2006-09-02  5:54         ` David Schwartz
2006-09-02 17:55           ` David Woodhouse
2006-09-02 19:41             ` David Schwartz
2006-09-03  9:39               ` David Schwartz
2006-08-28 15:00   ` Gene Heskett

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