Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] Linux, audio and the breach of GPL
From: Simon Jenkins (sjenkins_AT_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Sat Apr 10 2004 - 20:42:04 EEST
will_AT_malefactor.org wrote:
>IANAL, but I'm 99% sure that when you give someone a GPLd executable,
>you're only obligated to provide that one person with the sources, not the
>"general public" (read: everyone on earth).
>
True. Just that one person. But IF instead of giving them the source you
give
them a written offer to provide the source THEN they can pass your offer
along to third parties under some circumstances.
IANAL either... I'm a programmer. But the GPL is an algorithm and its pretty
clear how its intended to function. Whether or not it would actually
function
as intended on its "target processor" (a courtroom)? /That's/ what you'd
need
a lawyer to tell you.
Simon Jenkins
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