On Friday 12 February 2010 21:07:57 Ries van Twisk wrote: > > I was wondering about the GPL license. Let's say a company modifies > > EMC2 to > > better suit its needs. According to the GPL, the modified version > > has to be > > GPLed. Is this causing some manufacturers to abandon EMC2 for trade > > secret > > purposes or other?
> For one thing it's good to be in GPL because it opens the source and > a customer can see what's going on under the hood if he want's to. > As you know, GPL allows a customer to request the source (by law) > modify it for his needs and seel/give it away. Well, except that it's not that way. You first need to define "a customer". If you define "a customer" as "the guy receiving the parts manufactured on a CNC running EMC", then no. He doesn't have any right to receive the code from you. The _only_ case when you have to distribute the sources of your modified EMC is when you distribute the binaries of your modified EMC to the public. You do _not_ have to release the sources, if you modify and use a GPL project inside of your company. The sources do only have to be distributed to people receiving the binary. If nobody outside of the company can get your modified EMC, you don't have to provide the sources as well. -- Greetings, Michael. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
