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Handspring, gcc and ignoring the gpl

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From: Till Harbaum
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 00:00
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Hi!

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.

The gpl sais that you are allowed to modify and redistribute
all gpl'd software but you have to make the sources 
available. Because of that i've asked handspring for
the sources of the development kit.

Unfortunately they don't want to release them 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. Then i told them that the
gpl enforces them to give everybody access to the sources
of their modified gpl'd software, but they did not reply 
to that one.

What to do now? I really don't like the idea of companies
taking gpl'd code and including it into their binary
distributions without folwing the open-source concept.

Ciao,
  Till
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From: Till Harbaum <harbaum@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
Subject: Handspring, gcc and ignoring the gpl
Date: 1999/10/18
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