On Thursday 09 August 2007 07:37, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > On 8/8/07, Dinesh Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 19:20 +0530, Rony wrote: > > > If you are not the purchaser, you may not be able to get the > > > SC. The big ISP which buys it in bulk has to request for it. > > > > No. If the code is GPLed anyone can demand it. Customer or > > otherwise.
Only a customer can demand. so if i gave Rony and rony gave u a modem, u cant ask me for the source u can ask rony and he'll ask me. > > No, you cannot simply get it for free _just_ because the software > is GPL'ed. The seller may ask money for it if he wishes. GPL'ed > software must be mukt, not necessarily muft. The money he can ask is restricted to the cost of providing the media (cd / bandwidth + server storage costs). He cannot factor in extraneous costs (employees costs for maintaining cvs trees ) or profits for distributing the code. He can ask whatever he pleases for the initial binary and / or source. Having distributed the binary he is compelled by the gpl to offer and provide source at costs. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
