IANAL.
In fact, most of the people on this list are not lawyers, so maybe
we're not the most appropriate people to answer your query.
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:58:23AM +0000, Nilmoni Deb wrote:
> Its the last sentence that is of concern. Does this mean no 3rd
> party (who is not a customer) can get the GPL source code part of their
> products ? Seems like a GPL violation of clause 3b in
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html .
Section 3 seems to apply when a binary is redistributed, and my reading
of section 3b leads me to understand that it would only apply if all
of the following are satisfied:
1. A distributed a binary image to B.
2. A accompanied it with a written offer under section 3b.
3. A did not supply the source code corresponding to that
binary as per 3a.
> In addition:
>
> 1. There is no linux kernel source in ftp://ftp.mvista.com/
>
> 2. The download page http://www.mvista.com/previewkit/index.html does not
> claim to offer any source code at all.
Does the site allow you to download a binary kernel image? If the
answer is "no" then there isn't a problem here since section 3 does
not apply (no distribution of the program in object code or
executable form).
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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