Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2859 mails)

[Magnus Boman <captain.magnus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 12:45 +0200, Raúl Moratalla wrote:
> El Domingo, 6 de Mayo de 2007 09:05, John Andersen escribió:
> > > But that's not the point. People often think that someone has to provide
> > > the sources in any case for GPL software. But only people having access
> > > to the binaries must get access to the sources also. So only if you are
> > > a SLED customer you can ask for the sources for the GPL'ed software on
> > > it.
> >
> > That's my interpretation too, only if you distribute the product do you
> > need to give source, so one could take the position that until one
> > purchases a copy no distribution takes place (evaluation software aside).
> > Therefore there is no requirement to give source to anyone except paying
> > customers.

I think that as soon as you make it public (ie. not only for
internal/personal use) you have to make the sources available.
I guess a follow up question to that would be; If you don't modify the
sources at all, but simply package them (without any patches etc), do
you still have to make them available?

Cheers,
Magnus

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