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On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Sampo Savolainen wrote:

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> There's also another aspect. Company A might sell a GPL license for

> their software X to company B. They might want to do this as X uses or

> is based on GPL'd code. This means X needs to be licensed under the GPL.

> A is not obliged to distribute X to anyone but B and B might not want to

> redistribute X. B is naturally entitled to the source code of X as per

> GPL.

>

> I'm expecting this happens all the time.

Uh, that's a lot of A, B and X... you mean a company provides GPL'd

code to another, for money, for use in-house or in a service, on the

tacit understanding that it will go no further?
Reasonable supposition, but I can't help thinking it might not happen

as much as all that just because companies tend to be so GPL-averse.

I bet that what happens more often is that company A sells the

software to company B under standard proprietary terms, and just

happens to erroneously include some GPLd software in it without

mentioning it in the license...
Chris

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