26 Sep
2010
26 Sep
'10
10:56 a.m.
Dear Graeme Russ,
In message 4C9F087D.3010502@gmail.com you wrote:
Cavium never provided free access to their code, nor did they ever attempt to push their changes upstream.
Would they not, therefore, be in breach of the GPL?
According to the GPL, you don't have to provide free access to everybody.
It is sufficient to accompany the delivery of U-Boot to each of their customers with a written offer to provide any third party a copy of the corresponding source code.
Of course, each of Cavium's customers could request that code, and then put it on a public server - but it seems nobody ever did.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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