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Netfilter gets a GPL-enforcement injunction

Netfilter gets a GPL-enforcement injunction

Posted Apr 16, 2004 22:44 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Netfilter gets a GPL-enforcement injunction by bas
Parent article: Netfilter gets a GPL-enforcement injunction

But just above that, the GPL states

  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,
...
i.e., if you provide the person you give the binary with the source code, b) does not apply to you. You only need to do *one* of those things.


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