Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor packages now on SF

From: Arnold Krille <arnold@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Jul 26 2009 - 02:20:35 EEST

Hi,

On Sunday 26 July 2009 00:14:45 Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> The idea behind GPL is that if someone else modifies the code and
> redistributes this work, he must provide the code (under the same
> license) for anyone receiving the software. That is the point of the
> license.

The main point I remembered from the last thread with "Impro-Visor" in the
title: It uses gpl software itself. Which means that it has to publish the
modifications of that part at least.
And as the software is GPL licensed, the source _has_ to be made available at
least on request by ways equally convinient as the binaries (afaik this ruling
in the gpl-text wants to prevent that requests for the source-code have to be
written on 200$ notes or that the >1million lines of code are sent via fax or
snail-mail).

If someone says software A is released as GPL and doesn't release the source
(upon request) its not GPL. If software A uses GPL software it has to be valid
GPL software itself.

(I probably get corrected by Paul Davis in the next answer...)

Have fun,

Arnold

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