Re: [OT] open source distribution

["Stefan Waidele jun." <Stefan@Waidele.net>]

Russell Shaw wrote:
> Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> [...]
> If you sell the product to just one person, then you only need to
> distribute any GPL source code to that *one* person (IIRC).

But that means that there are already two persons who have the code...

<thinlegalice>
If you develop a program that is based on GPL-components, you can use it
for yourself. As long as you don't pass it on, noone can come up to you
and say: Show me the code! (How would anyone know, anyway?)
Since you don't distribute, you don't _need_ to put it under GPL. But
simultaniously, you _must not_ distribute it under any other license.

If you develop that as work for somebody else (who might be paying you),
you have to license it under the GPL. So whoever paid you to get the
code, can share it freely.

But it also works the other way: Whoever pays you, cannot get exclusive
rights to the code, since it is GPL, you can share it with others
without asking the one who paid you.
</thinlegalice>

I am _not_ a lawyer :)

Stefan