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From: "Henrik Nordström" <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Possible GPL violation
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:40:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1362732022.19746.4.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE21AQoqC8_sJarKmSAa2f-3=3YDPL9gK7rxL7pXUx3aa=NinQ@mail.gmail.com>

fre 2013-03-08 klockan 10:46 +1300 skrev Charles Manning:
> I have had to deal with this a bit so I'll give my 2c.
> 
> Under the GPL2, the company only has to provide source, or make an
> offer to do so, to customers buying the product containing the GPL
> code.

If you go the written offer path then it's not limited to your
customers, the written offer is valid for any third party which pretty
much means anyone. This is to cover that your customers have the right
to redistribute non-commercially with a copy of your written offer.

Regards
Henrik

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-08  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-19 20:32 [U-Boot] Possible GPL violation Mateusz Kulikowski
2013-02-20 14:24 ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-02-20 20:08   ` Mateusz Kulikowski
2013-03-07  9:17   ` Pavel Machek
2013-03-07 15:28     ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-03-07 21:46       ` Charles Manning
2013-03-07 22:23         ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-03-07 23:27           ` Charles Manning
2013-03-08  5:24             ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-03-08  8:40         ` Henrik Nordström [this message]
2013-09-12 19:46   ` Gerard Kam

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