On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 01:42:01PM -0800, Jim Thompson wrote: > > I have binaries. I asked. I was told "no". > > On Jan 14, 2004, at 1:15 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > > > On Mer, 2004-01-14 at 21:05, Jim Thompson wrote: > >> My question is why these patches, which are subject to GPL (it is > >> binutils and gcc, after all), haven't been released. > > > > There is no obligation for anyone to provide the source except to those > > they provide the binaries. They just can't stop those people then > > redistributing it. > > Since we are on this subject, I am curious if I buy a Cisco's router whether it is considered that Cisco distributs the binaries to me and whether I can demand for the source code if they are GPL'ed software. I can see arguments go either way. Do open source community and industry have some concensus on this issue? Jun
