[Flightgear-devel] Another person selling FlightGear under dubious pretenses

[Shane Martin Coughlan]

Thomas Charron wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Shane Martin Coughlan
> <coughlan at fsfeurope.org> wrote:
>> (4) The name and website of the party who may be violating the code
> 
> http://flight-aviator.com is the site they are selling the product
> under.  They are repackaging and resellling, for the most part, with
> no mention of the GPL and no offer to source.  When they are asked
> regarding the availability, they do not feel that they are bound by
> the GPL as they have made modifications to the software itself
> (illustrating a blatant misunderstanding of the license itself)

Now, that is interesting.  Making modifications does not remove an
obligation to obey the licence.  They must abide by the terms of the GPL
with the original code or modified versions of it.

I suppose the key question therefore is what gets delivered to people
who order the software.  It's still not necessarily a violation if the
product actually shipped to purchasers comes with a copy of the GPL
licence, copyright notices intact, and the source (or an offer to
provide the source).

Shane

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