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Article #351Re: Handspring, gcc and ignoring the gpl
From: Peter W
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 00:00
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Till Harbaum wrote: > Under http://info.handspring.com/developers_kit.html > Handspring offers a development kit for their soon to > come visor pdas. Some of the tools in this package > are based on gnu tools which all come under the gpl. > Unfortunately they don't want to release [the source code] now. They > > told me to wait some week and to return to their pages > then to download the sources, since they don't want to > publish the current version. This is essentially the same response I got today (1999/10/25, one week after your post, and six days after I emailed them). I was told that the source code "should" be up "this week". To which I responded that the GPL, particulary sections 5 and 7, make it quite clear that they cannot release binaries without making source available. We'll see. -Peter
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