On Thursday 09 August 2007 07:37, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 8/8/07, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 19:20 +0530, Rony wrote:
If you are not the purchaser, you may not be able to get the SC. The big ISP which buys it in bulk has to request for it.
No. If the code is GPLed anyone can demand it. Customer or otherwise.
Only a customer can demand. so if i gave Rony and rony gave u a modem, u cant ask me for the source u can ask rony and he'll ask me.
No, you cannot simply get it for free _just_ because the software is GPL'ed. The seller may ask money for it if he wishes. GPL'ed software must be mukt, not necessarily muft.
The money he can ask is restricted to the cost of providing the media (cd / bandwidth + server storage costs). He cannot factor in extraneous costs (employees costs for maintaining cvs trees ) or profits for distributing the code. He can ask whatever he pleases for the initial binary and / or source. Having distributed the binary he is compelled by the gpl to offer and provide source at costs.