On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Sampo Savolainen<[email protected]> wrote: > There's also another aspect. Company A might sell a GPL license for > their software X to company B. They might want to do this as X uses or > is based on GPL'd code. This means X needs to be licensed under the GPL. > A is not obliged to distribute X to anyone but B and B might not want to > redistribute X. B is naturally entitled to the source code of X as per > GPL. > > I'm expecting this happens all the time.
Uh, that's a lot of A, B and X... you mean a company provides GPL'd code to another, for money, for use in-house or in a service, on the tacit understanding that it will go no further? Reasonable supposition, but I can't help thinking it might not happen as much as all that just because companies tend to be so GPL-averse. I bet that what happens more often is that company A sells the software to company B under standard proprietary terms, and just happens to erroneously include some GPLd software in it without mentioning it in the license... Chris _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
