Re: [ts-7000] Re: GPL Litigation

[Dave Cramer <>]

The GPL is an interesting read.

AFACT (I'm not a lawyer )

You don't have to publicize your changes. You only have to provide them to your customers.

Your customers can be only paying customers. In other words you can have a product which you charge 

for but you have to provide your customers access to your code. Now an interesting note here is that you don't

have to make it compile for them, just provide them with source code.

Another interesting note is that only the copyright holder has legal rights to enforce this. So if I'm the copyright holder

and I make my code GPL I can do pretty much what ever I want with it.

Now you'd wonder how I happen to have this po! int of view. Well I recently looked into this with another project where 

all of the above was being done :(

Now I have a few more reasons to like freebsd like licenses.

Dave

On 23-Nov-07, at 2:55 AM, ndivner wrote:

Hi,

Thank you for the responses and yes I will endeavour to find some 
legal advice on the subject.

Best regards,

Noel.

--- In .com, "ndivner" <> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> 
> In light of recent litigation with respect to Busybox and the GPL 
> licence (see http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8588416581.html) I 
> would like to ask w! hat my obligations are with respect to using a 
ts-
> 72xx running ts-linux in a commercial product.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Noel Diviney.
>

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