* Arno Töll <debian@toell.net>, 2011-08-31, 13:41:
From your ITP: * Package name : cavalry Version : 1.15.0 ... * License : GPL That's not an optional step. Presuming you give out binary copies of your program licensed under the terms of the General Public License, everyone must be allowed to access your source code. However, as far as my knowledge goes, nobody saw a binary code copy either. Hence you are technically not violating the GPL (yet).
Quoting <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DeveloperViolate>:Strictly speaking, the GPL is a license from the developer for others to use, distribute and change the program. The developer itself is not bound by it, so no matter what the developer does, this is not a “violation” of the GPL.
However, if the developer does something that would violate the GPL if done by someone else, the developer will surely lose moral standing in the community.
-- Jakub Wilk