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Article #352Handspring, gcc and ignoring the gpl
From: Till Harbaum
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 00:00
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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