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From: Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com>
Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software
Date: 1999/04/27
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> writes:
> One very curious case would be the case in which the
> copyright holder, A, gives B a program, ostensibly under
> the GPL, but then refuses to give B the sources.

That could easily be the case if A is a commercial binary-distributor
and binary-distribution recipient, B, let the written offer expire
before asking A for the source, per GPL2-3(b).

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