Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: GPL Violation of 'sveasoft' with GPL Linux Kernel/Busybox +code | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Tue, 09 Nov 2004 15:48:25 -0500 |
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On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:23:08 PST, David Schwartz said:
> Umm, they restrict you from distributing. You don't get new updates if you > distribute.
A possibly important legal point is that they never actually restrict your rights to distribute everything they've given you.
Barring a contract that *obligates* them to provide you with future binary updates, I can't see much to hang a GPL violation on. They never stop you from distributing your current stuff - they merely don't provide you with *future* (and quite possibly never-actually-happening) software. 100% of what you *do* receive from them you can redistribute.
Yes, it's sleazy, but barring a contractual obligation, probably not illegal.
(If they're not shipping *future* updates out of the kindness of their heart, without a contract obligating it, then I'm in deep shit because I haven't shipped the LSM I said I'd be posting, but which hasn't happened because of other problems I had with -rc1-mm3. Think about whether you want to be in that boat... ;) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |