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Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:

> The only difference with GPL is that you must give the source if you
> sell the software to customers asking for them. In many many cases
> this is just ok (except if you plan working in the defense area or
> some other critical projects), so I still think it is perfectly
> possible to do business with the GPL compiler and libraries.

The UK MoD required access to the source code that we produced for
them. I'm not sure if that's always the case, and of course it didn't
apply to software that we bought in (there had to be some negotiation
about escrow, AFAICR).