On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Nadav Har'El <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011, Lior Kaplan wrote about "Re: Update: eVrit e-book > Reader": > > Did you get any kind of source or offer for the source as the licenses > > require? > > > > Kaplan > > I am not a lawyer and haven't paid attention to every little detail in the > GPL, > so maybe I'm asking a stupid question: does the GPL really say that you > must > give the source, or offer the source from your own site? > > What I mean is, if someone is selling a device running some unmodified > version > of Linux, and a couple other unmodified programs, isn't it enough for them > to just say that, and you can get it from those projects' own official > sites? > > Nadav. > > First, you should let the users know about the license itself and the copyrights the code has. Most manufactures just add a small paper with the list of software and their license or refer the users to a page in their website. When ever you distribute GPL code you are obligated to give the user an option to get the source. How you do that can vary from sending a CD with the source to download the files from your or someone else's website. But in any case your responsible to make sure the user can get the sources if he wants to.
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