Fwd: Information request regarding

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Neil Brown <neil at neilzone.co.uk> wrote:
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> Colton English wrote:
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>> I have offered
>> to send them a screen shot of the System information to prove that I
>> own the phone and have that version.
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> Ownership of the device is irrelevant - if a company wishes to make use
> of the "written" offer provision of GNU GPL v2 (section 3(b)), it is
> obliged to give the corresponding source code to "any third party".

 neil: you constantly amaze me as a source of knowledge on the GPL :)
been in free software since 1994; thought i knew it pretty well, esp.
the GPL - and there's these little gems like "any third party".

 so - damn it, what the bloody hell are we sitting around on our
backsides for when we should be issuing a cease and desist order to
HTC???