Who knows the GPL well?

[Brendan]

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 12:43 pm, you wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Brendan wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 October 2005 12:01 pm, Gordon Marx wrote:
> >> On 11/10/05, Brendan <mailinglist at endosquid.com> wrote:
> >>> 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?
> >
> > 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...
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CanIDemandACopy
>
> From the GPL FAQ:
>
> If I know someone has a copy of a GPL-covered program, can I demand he
> give me a copy?
>
>      No. The GPL gives him permission to make and redistribute copies of
> the program if he chooses to do so. He also has the right not to
> redistribute the program, if that is what he chooses.

Yeah, that's how I understood it.
Sigh, that stinks.