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Who knows the GPL well?



Greg Rundlett wrote:
> If you can find out who has a copy of the program (users/'customers'),
> then you can ask them to kindly take advantage of their right to share
> the source code.  

Alternatively, you could buy the software, and then resell it with
source at a 1/10 the price that they are selling it for. If you sell it
to ten people you've made your money back. It appears the GPL allows this:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLRequireAvailabilityToPublic
Grant M.
-- 
Grant Mongardi
Systems Engineer
NAPC

gmongardi at napc.com
http://www.napc.com/
781.894.3114 phone
781.894.3997 fax


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