Sveasoft's Violations

[Matthew Flaschen]

Not distributing corresponding source for any binary distribution, 
including "pre-release", is a violation.  Terminating support contracts 
for redistribution is legal, though contrary to the ethics of the GPL. 
Providing written offers to subscribers but not allowing third parties 
to use them is also a violation, and it seems Sveasoft is now attempting 
that tactic.

Matt Flaschen

Armijn Hemel wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 06:17:29PM -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 
>>Jeffrey, I'm not quite sure what you're reporting.  Some background 
>>about Sveasoft, aOpenWRT, the product and both companies or 
>>organizations business models (if any) would be helpful.  Darren is 
>>completely right that companies don't have to distribute GPL binaries to 
>>anyone under any circumstances.  The only obligation is to distribute 
>>source (or a written offer of source) with any binaries.
> 
> 
> The forums on the OpenWrt website (forum.openwrt.org) have a search option.
> Searching for "Sveasoft" will yield enough interesting posts.
> 
> Also: http://lwn.net/Articles/178550/ has quite a bit of background
> information.
> 
> armijn
>