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Rémi Letot <remi.letot.nospam@advalvas.be> writes:

> Till mentionned he did a "quiet chat approach", but had no answer from
> them. What is the possibility for such an approach if they simply don't
> want to answer ? Contacting the FSF and the GCC "team" doesn't mean hard
I just asked them for the source (without mentioning the gpl at all).
They asked me to wait some time, because they haven't finished work on it.

I then told them, that since they have a binary online, they obviously
have a working source and that it's probably gpl'd. They answered me to
wait two weeks which they need to clear up some third party licence
problems (obviously involving some non-gpl'd stuff).

And i then sent them a mail and told them that i am disappointed by this and
that i am afraid that once people start delaying the source for
two weeks, the next one will delay it even longer and sometime we'll see
binary version of gpl'd software with no source at all. They didn't
reply to that.

I am just wondering if the increasing popularity of linux will cause
such things to happen more frequently. The chance to earn money with
other peoples sources is increasing and someone will try it. I think
the FSF will soon have to show how far they'll go to defend the gpl.

Ciao,
  Till