[LAD] Impro-visor source code and fork

[Dave Phillips]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 19 July 2009, laseray at gmail.com wrote:
>   
>> If anybody is interested, I have decompiled the latest Impro-visor version,
>> which has only been provide as a binary (in contradiction to the terms of
>> the GPL). So if you want the source code just let me know and I will send
>> it.
>>
>> ....
>>
>>
>> Apart from that, I will be looking into forking Impro-visor in the next few
>> days. After making contact with the responsible parties about the GPL
>> violations, I have received no reply and the source code has not been
>> posted along with the binaries as is legally required....
> Turn this violation over to the kind folks at the FSF.  They have a legal team 
> to pursue such, and have AFAIK, a 100% batting record.  Letters from attorneys 
> will generally get their institutional attention.
>   

Maybe. I submitted details re: the LinuxSampler license to the FSF and 
never heard a thing from them.

For the OP's edification I submit this text from the GPL2 :

*3.* You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, 
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of 
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:


    *a)* Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
    source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1
    and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, 

    *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, 

    *c)* Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
    to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
    allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received
    the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in
    accord with Subsection b above.) 



There is no legal requirement for the producer to post the source code 
along with the binary. The legal requirement is that he makes it 
available under conditions spelled out in the license.

Best,

dp