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Posted by TBone on 10-Jul-2002 07:16 GMT | In reply to Comment 59 (Steffen Haeuser): Am I misunderstanding you, or are you saying "giving out copies of a program" is not the same as "distribution" under the GPL license?
The way I thought I understood the situation previously, was that "you" never distributed the binaries, and that someone "leaked" them to different people, placing the burdon of conforming to the GPL on the person who "leaked" the program, not you. Is this an accurate estimation of the scenario?
I can't speak for all developers, but IBM *insists* all betatesters, pedestrians, helicopter pilots, or barmaids that even mention or have anything to DO with a binary derived from GPL code, in any state, have full unfettered access to the source code to that binary, regardless of what stage of beta it's in or the phases of the moon.
I'm not sure myself how the GPL defines "distribution" so I've just emailed both them, and ID software, just out of my own curiosity, to see what they think, presenting this as a hypothetical scenario, as I'm really not sure myself. |
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