Re: scope of linux in the corporates...


John Hasler wrote:

Anyone who owns a copy of the binary is entitled to the source. You do not
own a copy that your employer issued to you to do your work with any more
than you own the computer he issued you.

That is not what the GPL says, and the GPL applies here because you
have no other way to get the right to create the derivative work in the
first place.

Allowing your employee to use one of your copies for his work is not
distribution.

You are correct that it is not distribution, however it is copying.
Copying has the same copyright implications that distribution does. GPL
section 3 only allows you to *make* a copy if you *accompany* it with
source code or a transferrable offer for source code.

I guess what it would come down to is whether or not the "accompany"
requirement only applies to distribution. I could see reasonable
arguments both ways.

DS

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