Re: Q: whald should I give my "customers" ?

[Mau Z <zmau1962 at gmail dot com>]

Thanks all,
I understand like Baruch Siach,  but in this case everything will be supplied.

Happy new year.

Thanks
Mau


On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 07:57:34PM +0100, Martin Guy wrote:
>> On 31/12/2013, Mau Z <zmau1962@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I have no  problems with licenses (all in the same city).
>>
>> You may not, but the GNU foundation and your customers may!
>>
>> If you give executables of GPL-ed software to people, you must also
>> make available to them the sources used to created those binaries: the
>> tarballs of the binutils, gcc, glibc sources and, of course, of the
>> build system used to compile them (crosstool-ng).
>
> That's is not my understanding of the license. According to subsection 6b of
> the GPLv3 license (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html), it is enough to
> "accompany" the binary program you distribute with "a written offer... to
> give... a copy of the Corresponding Source...". No need to send the huge pack
> of source code when nobody asked for it.
>
> Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.
>
> baruch
>
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