From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932082AbWH1HWK (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:22:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932117AbWH1HWK (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:22:10 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.178]:37592 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932082AbWH1HWJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:22:09 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gKfjpr7Aj5GmyXn0OYC9YfDmTtz4BL/vr3ujKbyjzxsqMvb1vWlG5f3visbFcFP15Ln4rqLd7J/wPoqHTRbAcrCIOtjHVCnud2cv2j1ad0v2h6JdQGCR8hiFfs31WjaKOzqxSrYghcccRKjB5tGs0OSpmwA12cV+o1EM/+wa6A4= Message-ID: <72dbd3150608280022ud3b61b7re3eefd65498b863@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:22:08 -0700 From: "David Rees" To: "Gene Heskett" Subject: Re: Possible gpl problem? Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <200608280259.38493.gene.heskett@verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200608280259.38493.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 8/27/06, Gene Heskett 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