On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 00:45, Michael Ost wrote:
As I nervously enter the fray... I work for Muse
Research. And yes we
are using Linux. But no we aren't going to tell customers about it in
any obvious way. Most of them don't care, and would indeed be confused
by that piece of information.
We have a team with good knowledge of this market (former Opcode,
Passport, E-Mu), and have a good sense of our potential customers. They
want it to work well and sound good; most don't care what OS it is
running.
But we don't make any secret of it: Linux is great and is a great boon
to our company.
And obviously we will abide by the terms of the licenses of the software
we are making use of. It frightens me to hear a statement like "obvious
breach of the GPL license."
Please help me out with this: I thought we just had to make the sources
available (they will be available on our or via our web site), return
any changes we make to the developers (we haven't changed much but we
have contributed back to the Wine project, for instance), and not change
or remove the copyright notices from the source (which of course we
won't).
Am I off track? Thanks for any help ... mo
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html . You are a bit off track, the
section on "Common Misunderstandings of the GPL" will get you back on
track. Putting the code on an FTP server is not enough. It is easier to
include the source on a CD with the binaries and also make it possible
for any third party to order the source code CD via mail for the cost of
the disc and postage.
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