Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 18, 2002 06:19 PM
This a very common misunderstanding of the GPL. The GPL says you must provide the source code along with the binaries you distribute.
This means that if you don't have access to MSVC binaries, you have no right for the source either.
This is also true for commercial companies: If company A is selling GPL software to company B, then A must provide the source code of the GPL software to company B along with the binaries. That doesn't mean that anybody on the internet can have access to the sources.
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Re:Is not it Linux after all?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 18, 2002 06:19 PMThis means that if you don't have access to MSVC binaries, you have no right for the source either.
This is also true for commercial companies: If company A is selling GPL software to company B, then A must provide the source code of the GPL software to company B along with the binaries. That doesn't mean that anybody on the internet can have access to the sources.
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