Re: scope of linux in the corporates...


John Hasler wrote:

David Schwartz writes:

So if you could make a copy of a GPL'd work without having to accompany
it with the source, you could transfer that copy to another person
without needing permission from the GPL to "distribute" the work.

There is no other person involved here.

I have a copy of binary of a GPL work, and I have a copy of the source. I
copy the binary. Do I need to copy the source as well? Of course not. It
is already accompanied by a copy of the source: the one I have in my other
hand.

The question is whether or not that copy of the binary must always be
accompanied by a copy of the source. If you are agreeing that it must,
then you cannot separate the two, they must stay together.

There are really only two possibilities:

1) The binary does not need to be accompanied by the source, and hence
you can transfer it to another person without giving them the source,
or

2) The binary must always be accompanied by the source, and anybody who
has a copy of one is entitled to a copy of the other.

If there's some middle-ground, I can't find it in the GPL.

DS

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