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SubjectRe: developers and GPL in products (Was: Re: GPL violations by wireless manufacturers)
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Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@skelleftea.mail.telia.com> writes:

> A customer of a product B that uses GPL project A can
> require the source for A. But what about the primary developer?
> Suppose the company charges an obscene amount of money for
> the product (that might be an enhanced project A, like a patch to allow
> compilation on Win32) - the primary developer might not afford to buy that
> product.

There is no problem with that. Still, the company may choose not to
release the product at all. But, if it does, anyone (any customer)
can make that software public, as permitted by the license.
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Krzysztof Halasa
Network Administrator
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