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Who knows the GPL well?



Remember that it's FREE as in FREEDOM.

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/

Brendan wrote:

>On Tuesday 11 October 2005 12:01 pm, Gordon Marx wrote:
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>>On 11/10/05, Brendan <mailinglist at endosquid.com> wrote:
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>>>Company does not want to give me the source code to their GPL product
>>>unless I buy it. Is this legal? I have already tried searching, and
>>>couldn't come up with anything concrete.
>>>      
>>>
>>Not enough information.
>>
>>As I understand it, if you can get your hands on a binary of the
>>software, they have to give you the source also. If the only way to
>>get the binary is to buy it, then they don't have to give you the
>>source. Which case is it?
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>>
>
>No money = no binary, no source.
>I get nothing if I give them no money.
>This is all php code, so it's already in source form. I just can't get my 
>hands on anything...
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