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One other simple point that is often overlooked: You are only obligated to
release source code to people you have distributed binaries to.
Joe Shmoe off the street has no right to ask for your GPL'd code unless he
has also gotten (or paid for, as the case may be) a binary from you.
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Michael
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Joseph Mack wrote:
> Wayne wrote:
> > If you made any change to any LVS code,
> > you must post the change to public or anyone who
> > ask you.
>
> This has been beaten to death on /. It seems that many
> people (including me) don't understand this.
>
> You can modify GPL'ed code anyway you like without having to
> release it. If you supply someone with the binary, you must
> also give them the source code. Till the moment you release
> the binary you have no obligation to show anyone your code.
> In a book about RMS "Free as in Freedom" (recently
> reviewed by Danny Yee on /. - I've read it and enjoyed it),
> the author discusses RMS's original plan which was to force
> everyone to release everything. For various reasons (including
> that there was no place to put all this stuff), this option
> was not used.
>
> There is another point about releasing code, that you can charge
> for it, but I don't understand this, if the code has to be
> free as in beer.
>
> Joe
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Michael E. Brown, RHCE, MCSE+I, CNA
Dell Linux Solutions
http://www.dell.com/linux
If each of us have one object, and we exchange them,
then each of us still has one object.
If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them,
then each of us now has two ideas.
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