[Asterisk-Dev] GPL Violation http://www.asteriskwin32.com/

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 16:57 +1200, Derek Smithies wrote:
>  The question is: has the guy sold product?
> 
> If he is still developing, but not sold product, then fine. 
>   There is no GPL violation.

This is incorrect. The GPL comes into effect when you _distribute_ the
program. Sales have absolutely nothing to do with it.

> You see, suppose he has been required to write Makefiles and configure
> commands to get it to work (but not changed the asterisk source) he is
> not required to release.

The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
making modifications to it.  For an executable work, complete source
code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
control compilation and installation of the executable.

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