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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: GPL Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 12:17:10 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 28 Message-ID: <32F37A96.2781E494@freebsd.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32ED1866.34F02393@indiana.edu> <5cl66d$l52@web.nmti.com> <5cmiuu$iud@garuda.synet.net> <5cokgi$alm@web.nmti.com> <L3U8y0gTz/TM091yn@ibm.net> <32F167BB.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <0rnuc5.3e1.ln@zen> <5cvodo$hme@omega.gmd.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:155947 comp.os.linux.networking:67149 comp.os.linux.advocacy:82280 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2216 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51793 comp.os.os2.advocacy:265424 Holger Veit wrote: > > In comp.os.os2.advocacy Robert Brockway <robert@humbug.org.au> wrote: > : John S. Dyson (dyson@freebsd.org) wrote: > > : : > Too bad for them, because plenty of money can be made by giving code > : : > away and selling professional services to support it. > : : > > : : Works great for BSD also. In fact, lots of money is being made selling > : : GPLed code also, in the guise of support. Of course, you need the > : : support to get the code... :-). (That is counter to the intent of GPL, > > : ??? The GPL says that your can't attempt to stop redistribution of > : binaries or source under the license. So how can you say that you need > : the support to get the code? > > Dream on. What's happening to me was the following: there is a company > which has made a port of gcc to some embedded controller. They want > DEM 3000 for a service contract and then give you binaries and sources > of this port "as an addition". > That is totally with the scope of GPL. (One of GPLs dirty little secrets.) You don't have to redistribute source, unless you redistribute binaries. And, of course, NOONE can compel you to redistribute binaries. John