Hi @all!
I do not know all the legal aspects of the GPL but I could imagine that you cannot publish a software under the GPL and disallow to take copies of the software at the same time. That would contradict the GPL, wont it? In this case, I suppose, software and hardware are easily sepereatable. (?)
regards, Axel
"Fredrik Lundgren" zoldac@hotmail.com schrieb am 12.02.04 10:21:00:
Hi all,
Lets say I have developed an GPL'd application and put it on some hardware, a pda. I then let someone borrow the pda, and NOT giving him/her permission to take a copy of the application. Must I still give that person the source code?
If the person pays a smaller amount of money for the time he/she uses the pda, does the answer from the previous question still apply?
Sincerely, Fredrik
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Am Donnerstag, dem 12. Feb 2004 schrieb Axel Schulz:
I do not know all the legal aspects of the GPL but I could imagine that you cannot publish a software under the GPL and disallow to take copies of the software at the same time. That would contradict the GPL, wont it?
Agree
In this case, I suppose, software and hardware are easily sepereatable. (?)
"Fredrik Lundgren" zoldac@hotmail.com schrieb am 12.02.04 10:21:00:
Lets say I have developed an GPL'd application and put it on some hardware, a pda. I then let someone borrow the pda, and NOT giving him/her permission to take a copy of the application. Must I still give that person the source code?
If you ask just because you are low on memory space: a written offer to provide the source code on request is enough.
The GPL says in section 3b: | b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three | years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your | cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete | machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be | distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium | customarily used for software interchange;
If the person pays a smaller amount of money for the time he/she uses the pda, does the answer from the previous question still apply?
That price doesn't matter at all.
Just the price for providing the source code is limited as described above.