Re: blatant GPL violation of ext2 and reiserfs filesystem drivers

[Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>]

Horst von Brand wrote:
> Scott Mansfield <thephantom@mac.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Developer replies that the source code will be provided
> > > > only to paying customers:
>
> > > Not really.  Developer does make the bizarre statement that "paid
> > > customers" are entitled to source code,
>
> Read the GPL: You get the binary, you are entitled to the source. You have
> no binary, wellll...
>
> Sure, you can get the binary (legally!) from somebody else, and then you
> are entitled to source.
But the obligation to provide you with the source is on the person who 
gave you the binary not the person who sold him the binary.
--
Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
 -- Ambrose Bierce
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