[chbot] Low cost WiFi, serial adaptor, tiny Linux
Volker Kuhlmann
list0570 at paradise.net.nz
Tue May 27 23:16:44 BST 2014
On Wed 28 May 2014 08:03:28 NZST +1200, Charles Manning wrote:
> It is commonly thought that GPL requires you to publish the source code.
> This is not so. I have been involved in enough GPL violation cases to know
> that this is not so.
>
> All you are required to do is offer to provide the source code to anyone
> that has bought the product (then provide it if they do). You may even
> charge a nominal amount to do so.
I understand this problem is fixed with GPLv3. Unfortunately the Linux
kernel can't be changed from GPLv2.
Regardless of license I am not interested in tinker devices without
source code, as that is too much of an oxymoron.
Volker
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