Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Sep 2007 17:35 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Monsoon Multimedia, which was subjected to the first US lawsuit on non-compliance with the GPL, has published a press release in which they agree to make any modifications public and thereby complying to the requirements stipulated in the GPL license. "Monsoon Multimedia today announced efforts to fully comply with the GPL. Monsoon is in settlement negotiations with BusyBox to resolve the matter and intends to fully comply with all open-source software license requirements. Monsoon will make modified BusyBox source code publicly available on the company web-site in the coming weeks."
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2007-02-17
Not at all.
Firstly, the GPL does not require you to distribute the code to all your customers ... what it actually requires is that you make the source code available to anyone who asks for it (customers or not).
All that was required of Monsoon is to have provided the source code to the people who did ask for it.
Monsoon could have done that by making it available for download from a website, but just as easily Monsoon could have posted a CD with the source on it back to the few people who asked for it.