Before you paste it, read it yourself.
It says "ONE OF THE FOLLOWING", not "ALL OF THE FOLLOWING"

Rex Dieter wrote:

>Kyle McDonald wrote:
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>>Rex Dieter wrote:
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>>>RealVNC is violating the GPL (unknowningly or not) by failing to
>>>provide the (preferred) source to the binary they distribute.
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>>On top of that, it's trechnically impossible for Real-VNC to violate the
>>GPL. 
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>I suggest you read the GPL then (relavent section 3 appended).  It says that
>GPL binaries that are distributed *must* include source.  I can't see how
>Real-VNC doesn't have to comply with that.
>
>-- Rex
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> 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
>under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
>Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
>
>
>    a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
>    source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
>    1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
>
>    b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
>    years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
>    cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
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>    distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
>    customarily used for software interchange; or,
>
>    c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
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>    allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
>    received the program in object code or executable form with such
>    an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
>
>The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
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