[mythtv-users] Re: New user and question about GPL

Gavin Hurlbut gjhurlbu+mythtv-users at beirdo.ca
Fri Dec 10 19:24:45 UTC 2004


Lane Schwartz <dowobeha at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yup. Although I was also partly right, in that a company *can* limit
> the source to those who purchase the binaries. It's just that they
> have to distribute the source with the binaries in order to do this.

And can't stop further distribution of said software.  Which means they really
can't limit the source to anyone, which is the whole point of the GPL.

Ciao
Gavin




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