Re: gEDA-user: firmware and the GPL license

[John Coppens <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:34:38 -0500
Randall Nortman <geda-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The users will never take them up on it.  Instead of using
> uClibc, they will just write their own code from scratch or purchase
> proprietary libraries.

It's not the users that have to have access to the code. After all, 99
% of GIMP/Firefox/etc users will never consult the code.

It's developers, if they want to build on a derived work. So, in terms
of the GPS license, it would be enough to mention somewhere the site
where the source code can be downloaded. Even on a lightbulb, it could be
printed on the packing.

John


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