Re: Handspring, gcc and ignoring the gpl

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From: Matthew Sparks
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 00:00

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

Technically they haven't released their software yet. I would at least wait
until the hardware is released(which in turn releases their software). Then
they are supposed to release the source code, until that point they have
every right to keep it under wraps. But I'm sure since they indicated they
were going to release the source, the power that be would just ignore the
issue.

Matt Sparks

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Subject: Re: Handspring, gcc and ignoring the gpl
Date: 1999/10/18
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