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

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, 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.
> 
> If he is still developing, and has sold product, then there is a
> possible violation.
> 
> 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.
Wrong. This has absolutely nothing to do about software being 'sold'. And 
it also has nothing to do with 'additions vs modifications'.

He distributes binaries. Binaries contain GPL'd code. Thus, he must 
provide *all* of the source code necessary to build his binaries, yes, 
that would include his Makefiles and whatever else.

-alex