Re: GPL question, can open source code can be used to prop. platform?

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 07/26/04

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    Date: 26 Jul 2004 07:06:06 GMT

    Jem Berkes <jb@users.pc9.org> writes:

    ]> Can opensource code (RH/Debian/SUSE) modified for inhouse firewall
    ]> platform and can be sold in for commercial use?. Is this GPL coers
    ]> this?. Or Is there any royalty or licensing fee has to pay per unit?.
    ]> What if some modifications does for some of the code?. Thanks.

    ]You can sell the software/firmware to your customers for $1 million
    ]dollars, but once it's provided in binary or compiled form to the customers
    ]you must also provide them with source code should they ask for it. You can
    ]not provide the binary without offering the source.

    ]And once they have the source code, there is nothing that prevents them
    ]from modifying it or redistributing it.

    Well, their is your copyright which prevents this, but under the GPL you
    must also distribute your code under the GPL.

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