In message 4852D065.9070800@ge.com you wrote:
I received the following email from Ulf - it appears he is struggling with his phone/email and sent it directly to me only, not to the list. The one that really needed it was Vyas. As expected, Vyas just needed to know where to look to get the source.
Know where to look to get the source?
That's illegal.
The GPL explicitely states:
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
If such a written offer is included, you don't "need to know where to look to get the source", because it is clearly documented.
Vyas, can you please comment if such a written offer was included with the package you received?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk