Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: GPL Violation of 'sveasoft' with GPL Linux Kernel/Busybox + code | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Mon, 08 Nov 2004 23:25:58 +0000 |
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On Llu, 2004-11-08 at 21:54, David Schwartz wrote: > If Sveasoft is not violating the GPL, then the GPL can trivially be evaded > by anyone using a refinement of their technique. You simply make a person > agree not to ever request the source code or distribute the binary code in > exchange for agreeing to sell them the software in the first place.
That would be an additional restriction since its a right the GPL definitively gives you. The drafters of the GPL were not dumb people.
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