Re: Conflicting statements about GPS?

["Jeffrey Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com>]

"Stephen Leake" <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
news:u8z0qjge7.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov...
> Mark Johnson <mark_h_johnson@raytheon.com> writes:
> I'm also a beta user of GPS.
>
> The fact that ACT distributes binaries, but not source, is I think a
> violation of the GPL. I suspect I could force them to give me source
> if I really wanted to.

As someone else said even if they release it as GPL eventually, if ACT own
the
copyright they can distribute it under other terms as well (as long as it
does not include
other pure GPL components)....

But even if it did they would not have to give you the source with the
binary.
(see item b below from the GPL).

 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,

    b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
    years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
    cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
    machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
    distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
    customarily used for software interchange; or,

    c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
    to distribute corresponding source code.  (This alternative is
    allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
    received the program in object code or executable form with such
    an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)