Re: Corel's distro and the GPL
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 03:43:53PM +0800, Ian McKellar wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 11:52:30PM -0400, Tim Armbruster wrote:
> > I wouldn't
> > consider myself an expert, but the source for the Free binaries does not
> > seem to be there. I think this would be a violation of the GNU GPL.
>
> So long as they make the source available, its okay. If you've bought Corel
> Linux and you ask Corel for the source for one of the pieces of Free
> Software on the CD, they have to supply it to you.
>
More importantly though, they have to provide source to the binaries they
have compiled. So if they made any changed to GPL software, they have to
provide those changes.
Ben
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