GPL and NDA

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Mon Mar 31 18:43:00 CEST 2003


On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Antony Stone wrote:

> This would then be a violation of the GPL.   If you produce something based 
> on GPL code, you must distribute the source (or make it available) as well as 
> the binary.   There's no such thing as binary-only GPL code.

yes, and to reiterate, if you never distribute binary, then you don't have 
to distribute source. E.g. IBM never released the linuxbios code they 
wrote for an SiS chipset as the project got cancelled.

ron




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