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Till Harbaum <harbaum@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> wrote in message
news:yksiu44ltx4.fsf@flens.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de...
> 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.
>

You obviously have never released software. Its not like
companies have their in-house tools lying around packaged
nicely, all documented and friendly. Give them some time
to put together a development kit with source, examples and
documentation. They didn't say they wouldn't release it, the
just asked for some time.

Tom