Sveasoft's Violations

[David A. Desrosiers]

> Not distributing corresponding source for any binary distribution, 
> including "pre-release", is a violation.

 	I think you meant "providing", not distributing. They don't 
have to "distribute" source with every binary, they just have to make 
it available when requested by anyone who can obtain the binary.

 	I've already fought this one with the lawyers on our side in a 
case against a pretty large company who took our project in full and 
called it their own (removing our names from the About box and such), 
sold it to customers who then sold it to hundreds of thousands of 
other customers. Not fun.

 	Sony used to do something very shady and similar too, where 
they would release binaries for version 1.0 of POSE without source, 
then release v1.1 in binary with 1.0 source. They claimed that they 
were "cleaning up the source" for the current version, which is why 
they were always 1 version behind. I argued that "cleaned up source" 
produced a different binary (which would also have to have its source 
available).


David A. Desrosiers
desrod at gnu-designs.com
http://gnu-designs.com