Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

[Dasn Cups <dasn@users.sf.net>]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:09:08AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> If you use GPL'd code and distribute the results and refuse to hand out
> the source code, the copyright holder of the GPL'd code can sue you for
> copyright violation.
> 
> If you really meant code owned by the GNU project, the copyright holder
> is most likely the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and they would sue
> you, if it came to that.
> 

The problem is that if I refuse to hand out the source code, who will know
that I used GPL'd code? By disassembling?

Thanks