Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:25:42 +0000 | | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | | Subject | Re: Monta Vista software license terms |
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On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:04:36PM -0500, Disconnect wrote: > What does this "written offer valid for any third party" mean? Does that > mean everyone in the world can get the source to any GPL'ed program no > matter what? > "Valid for any third party" means that anyone who has the offer > is entitled to take you up on it. > > If you commercially distribute binaries not accompanied with > source code, the GPL says you must provide a written offer to > distribute the source code later. When users non-commercially > redistribute the binaries they received from you, they must pass > along a copy of this written offer. This means that people who > did not get the binaries directly from you can still receive > copies of the source code, along with the written offer.
Has any user of a mvista-powered embedded device ever seen this offer?..
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