LG violates GPL?

Armijn Hemel armijn at uulug.nl
Wed Oct 7 22:47:51 CEST 2009


On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 21:41 +0200, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 07.10.2009 um 20:48 schrieb Thijs Triemstra | Collab:
> > Ehm, providing the source upon request only is a violation isn't it?  
> > It should be available through a public http/ftp site right?
> 
> It is even more strict: they have to provide the source only to
> customers who actually bought the product and it is perfectly
> ok if they do this on request as they do now per mail.

Nope. If they provide a written offer (as they do now) they have to
provide it to "any third party".

armijn

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