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

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: 27 Jul 2004 22:32:36 GMT

huge@ukmisc.org.uk (Huge) writes:

]General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> writes:
]>On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:01:46 -0700, Santa wrote:
]>
]>> Well, if I burned binary into firewall box (into flash), if I sell
]>> that box, do I have to provide the source to the customer?. These
]>> boxes if I sell in every electronic shop, how can I provide source
]>> code?.
]>
]>You must provide the source code but it doesn't have to be in the box.
]>Putting the source code on your website is sufficient.
]>

]Except that the FSF think it isn't.

Where do they state this thought? What do they think is sufficient? Anyway,
it is by now up to the courts, if anyone wants to take the case to court.
Their thoughts are irrelevant except as encoded in the GPL.

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