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    Gpl & Source Code - Constructive Suggestions

    This thread seemed to have run its course, in that there wasn't much new information being exchanged. I don't know the details of the Monday Development, and these things are all about details, so I do not have much to say about it.
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    Gpl & Source Code - Constructive Suggestions

    That particular barrier to enforcement was erased by the "Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works". The Monty Python materials date from before that. In other words, this wouldn't be an issue with material created within the last two decades.
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    Gpl & Source Code - Constructive Suggestions

    There are two possibilities. Either GPH is well intentioned but is having teething troubles, or they are not well intentioned. By "well intentioned", I mean that they wish to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the GPL and other germaine free software licenses, and they wish to...
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    Gpl & Source Code - Constructive Suggestions

    That is not true. Permission to distribute GPLed binaries is granted only if the corresponding source code is made availalble. At the time of distribution, to the recipient of the binary. Period. There is no exemption for "not officially released" versions.
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    Gpl & Source Code - Constructive Suggestions

    No. There is nothing in the GNU GPL about an "official" release. Or about a "release" at all, for that matter. Distribution of GPLed software is in violation of copyright unless certain conditions are met. These conditions mainly consist of making the corresponding source code easily...
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    Gpl & Source Code - Constructive Suggestions

    The blog doesn't have any real information, and the thread is full of posts by people who either don't understand the GPL or don't have standing. Let me ask a simple question. Why should I take this violation of my copyright any less seriously than Microsoft would if Gamepark Holdings shipped...
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    Gpl & Source Code - Constructive Suggestions

    Yesterday I got a handful of brand new GP2X units. These appear to contain software under the GNU GPL, including but not limited to the Linux kernel. A CDROM was enclosed in the box, but to my surprise it contained no source code, and instead contained more GPLed software (eg Quake, Quake2)...
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