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Posted by Anonymous on 10-Jul-2002 00:24 GMT | In reply to Comment 39 (Mike Veroukis): The GPL doesn't say anything about "the public at large" or "beta testing". The rule is source-follows-binary, so in the example of giving a friend a "beta test" copy of some software, that friend would automatically receive the rights granted by the GNU GPL, including the right to redistribute the software and to get source code from you.
IF you give someone a binary THEN you must offer them source. It's that simple.
"Forcing developers to release every bit of code that touches a GPL license is silly and generally not very useful to the community."
It's to the advantage of the users to be able to get source code for software they use, no matter whether the developer thinks it is "finished" or not. How many Amiga programs that had a lot of potential were unfinished and then sank out of sight, only for someone else to start all over again? With the GNU GPL that time need not have been wasted. |
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