Re: Selling APs flashed with LinuxAP

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:06:55AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

> Regardless, you can still charge for GPL'd software providing you
> meet the other requirements of the license, namely making the source
> available to anyone you sell/distribute the binary too.  You are NOT
> under an obligation to distribute the source to anyone who has not
> received the binary package, though anyone who does receive the
> source is not under obligation to keep it secret....

I believe that this is wrong, per my (layman) reading of GPL section
3b, which seems to require that if you redistribute GPLd code in
binary form, you must make the source available to *any* third party.
However, I am not a lawyer, and I don't think anyone else who
responded was, either; if you're going to be doing something legally
questionable, you really should consult a lawyer.  Lawyers charge real
money for consultation, but they charge a lot more to respond to a
lawsuit.

[And no one addressed the issue of selling rebadged equipment without
permission, which I thought was much more interesting than GPL stuff.
If you do your best to follow the GPL but accidentally violate it, the
FSF will probably be reasonable, and will let you fix your mistake
without taking draconian measures; but if you piss off a big
commercial company, you'd better be ready to be sued.]

- Morty