Sveasoft's Violations

Darren dmbtech at gmail.com
Mon Aug 21 22:32:10 CEST 2006


Jeffrey Leung wrote:
> After doing some reading, I do have a strong belief that Sveasoft is 
> violating the terms under the GPL licensce. The developers over 
> aOpenWRT have revoked their rights to use the software, but still they 
> are using that same GPL code to make their software. I understand that 
> they can sell the software on a subscription basis, but clearly they 
> can not forbid people to redistrubite it.
I'm not sure, im a newbie when it comes to the legality of the GPL, but 
I don't think they have to redistribute the binaries.  Think about 
redhat, they don't have to redistribute the binaries of there enterprise 
linux, but the source code they do, and they do that.

So unless sveasoft doesn't allow redistribution of the source code, its 
legal. If I'm wrong, someone please correct me.

--DmB



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