[mythtv-users] Re: New user and question about GPL

Lane Schwartz dowobeha at gmail.com
Sat Dec 11 01:47:56 UTC 2004


On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:24:45 +0000 (UTC), Gavin Hurlbut
<gjhurlbu+mythtv-users at beirdo.ca> wrote:
> Lane Schwartz <dowobeha at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yup. Although I was also partly right, in that a company *can* limit
> > the source to those who purchase the binaries. It's just that they
> > have to distribute the source with the binaries in order to do this.
> 
> And can't stop further distribution of said software.  Which means they really
> can't limit the source to anyone, which is the whole point of the GPL.

Right. 

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