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BusyBox settles another lawsuit

BusyBox settles another lawsuit

Posted Mar 7, 2008 4:44 UTC (Fri) by djao (subscriber, #4263)
In reply to: BusyBox settles another lawsuit by csawtell
Parent article: BusyBox settles another lawsuit

Actually, if you read the text of Section 3b that you posted, it says explicitly that the offer of source code must be extended to "any third party." In other words, under Section 3b, you really must make the source code available to the general public, not just your own customers.

If for some reason you desperately want to make source code available only to your customers, you can do this under the GPL, but you must choose Section 3a of the GPL instead of Section 3b.


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