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From: "David Rees" <drees76@gmail.com>
To: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible gpl problem?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:22:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <72dbd3150608280022ud3b61b7re3eefd65498b863@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608280259.38493.gene.heskett@verizon.net>

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.

-Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-28  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-28  6:59 Gene Heskett
2006-08-28  7:22 ` David Rees [this message]
2006-08-28 10:31   ` Kasper Sandberg
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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