At 08:18 AM 3/10/2009, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: >On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Mitul Limbani <[email protected]> wrote: > > GPL doesn't restrict someone to sell a gpl software to others, just > > that the buyer is not aware of the 4 freedoms he is entitled with. > > > >As I understand, with GPL, all you need to do when you sell software >is to make the code of the software available to the buyer. In case of >some embedded products, the code is available as downloads from their >websites. The seller is in no way _required_ to publish his code >online just because he is selling GPLed software. He only has to make >the code available to the person he sold the software to. He could >even do it on paper if he wants to :)
A minor correction: Just handing over the code is not enough.The seller has to make the code available to the buyer *under the terms of GPL*. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
