Gpl violation

[Armijn Hemel]

On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 18:59 +0100, Luca Mussio wrote:
> I'm contacting you to know if - at the URL
> http://www.mayking.com/prodotti/opensuite/overview - the Mayking
> company is making a GPL violation, 'cos there they're telling that the
> software they give is open source, but it's not possible to download
> the source from any link inside their site. Moreover they're telling
> that their software is a sort of Open Source Software collection.
> Is this a GPL violation?

Not necessarily. Depends on whether or not they are distributing it and
who the copryight holder is. If they are the copyright holders, they can
license it any way they want and not give you the source if they want
to. If they do distribute it and don't comply with the license (and
there are several ways to comply with a license, depending on which
license they distribute it under), then there might be a license
violation.

The copyright holders would then probably like to be informed.

armijn

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