Timeline for Do the rights of the developer supersede the rights granted to the end user by the GPLv2 License?
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| yesterday | comment | added | Ichthyo | "Interesting...." So you could deliberately create an executable with extra features, don't publish the source for it, but then market it as "Open Source" and attempt to get many people to use your binary and rely on the extra features. Sounds familiar. | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 19:28 | history | edited | apsillers♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 3, 2018 at 14:28 | history | edited | apsillers♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 3, 2018 at 13:09 | vote | accept | dcrdev | ||
| Apr 3, 2018 at 12:27 | comment | added | apsillers♦ | (to continue:) "The question yI wonder is: why are you bothering to license the binary under the GPL when you don't supply the necessary source to comply with your license grant? Even if the license grant on the binary is valid, it's worthless because the conditions for its usefulness (complete corresponding source) are not satisfied. Why not simply say your source code is GPL-licensed but your binary is under a different license that allows freeware-style distribution?" | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 12:23 | comment | added | user10225 | The key word is "ought". It can't be "must". | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 12:22 | comment | added | apsillers♦ | @dcrdev The fix here if for the developer to clarify that the binaries are not under the GPL. I'd say something like, "It's your code; you are free to exclude build scripts from your source distribution. However, if you want to claim that your binary files are under the GPL as well, then you ought to include the complete corresponding source for that binary. Without offering the complete source with the binary, you're effectively saying that people are free to distribute the binary as long as they do the impossible (i.e., accompany it with corresponding source that they never got)." | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 11:59 | comment | added | dcrdev | Your "critical edge" case - is the exact thing I'm trying to get to the bottom of. That is precisely what's happening. | |
| Apr 3, 2018 at 11:41 | history | edited | apsillers♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 3, 2018 at 11:28 | history | answered | apsillers♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |