From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263365AbTFYA0T (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:26:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264127AbTFYA0T (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:26:19 -0400 Received: from impact.colo.mv.net ([199.125.75.20]:6056 "EHLO impact.colo.mv.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263365AbTFYA0S (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:26:18 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF8EF5C.4000005@bogonomicon.net> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:39:56 -0500 From: Bryan Andersen Organization: Bogonomicon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zack Gilburd , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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> <200306241727.51092.zack@tehunlose.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Zack Gilburd wrote: > Not exactly. By my understanding of the GPL, if you plan on distributing > binaries outside of your corporation, you MUST make the source available to > any and all third parties. In adition, you must bundle the source code with > the binary. Please actually read the GPL License before you spew. GPL only requires you to distribute source to those you distribute binaries to, not everybody. If the binary seller wishes they can provide source to everybody but it is not required. - Bryan