LG violates GPL?

[Chris DiBona]

I prefer mirroring simply because it keeps the online complaining down, but
even then, I've had people complain first and then look for the mirror after
the fact. The actual number of people who actually care about the code
itself can be quite small.
chris

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn at ebb.org> wrote:

> Allan Hardy wrote at 10:49 (EDT) on Thursday:
>
> > We always 'ship source with binaries' to keep us out of trouble
>
> It's so good to read that, and I wish more commercial companies were as
> enlightened as yours on this point.
>
> Commercial companies are generally obsessed with doing offers for
> source.  The main reason I believe they do this as they think it will
> somehow be better for them, and they won't actually have to prepare a
> source release because they actually believe no one will ever ask.
>
> As people on this mailing list know, one of "us" :) will always ask for
> it, and then they have to come into compliance.
>
> The three year obligation to produce media and ship it to people is a
> real pain for companies, but until they have been through it they just
> won't believe the GPL enforcement community when we tell them that.
>
> I've been telling violating companies that very point since 1999 when I
> started doing GPL enforcement, ten years later, they *still* always want
> to do the offer for source anyway.
>
> --
>
>   -- bkuhn
>
>


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