Dinesh Joshi 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.
Yesterday I went through the entire GPL v3 and its FAQs. There in one of
the examples I read, if a company gets software created from someone and
he provides it under GPL, the employees who are users cannot demand any
SC for the software they use on their systems, even if they take the
software home and install it on their systems. The GPL provides the
right of freedom to the company but it does not force it to pass it on
to the users. Similarly though people use voting machines, the SC for
the GPLed code inside is not accessible to the public.
The grey area is about treating devices on lease/rent as distribution or
simply company use. Anyway, I have written a mail about the same to GNU
and hope to receive a reply from them.
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