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Who knows the GPL well?



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...




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