Re: [Flightgear-devel] hypothetical gpl question

[Arnt K. <ar...@c2...>]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:28:26 -0700 (PDT), Gene wrote in message 
<alp...@gr...>:

> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Tim Moore wrote:
> 
> >
> > You don't have to provide sources with the binaries to comply with
> > the GPL, you just have to make them available if the a recipient of
> > the binary asks for them. In this case company "A" better have a
> > plan in place for when an eventual paying customer 

...or any other lawful recepient...

> > asks for the
> > source. I mean this in the sense that your business model shouldn't
> > depend on keeping source code secret if you're using GPL'ed code.
> >
> 
> If it's been "distributed" once, doesn't that entitle _anyone_ to a
> copy of the source code, reguardless of whether or not they got the
> binary first?

..strictly speaking in the senseless litigation sense, 
no, ;o) they first need to receive the binary, but in 
any other sense, yes, AFAIK. ;o) 


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