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From: kturvey@pug1.sprocketshop.com (Kenneth P. Turvey)
Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software
Date: 1999/04/26
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On 26 Apr 1999 13:03:32 -0700, Tim Smith <tzs@halcyon.com> wrote:
>In article <gi71g7.gj.ln@joey>,  <spblunt@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>>Well B has done nothing wrong in selling C the software. Neither party can 
>>really sue B because B hasn't broken the licence (unless they refuse to 
>>give C the source code upon request).
>
>B broke the license by not telling C that the software was GPL'ed.
>

It should be noted that `telling' C that the software is GPL'ed could be
simply including the standard COPYING file on the CD.

-- 
Kenneth P. Turvey <kturvey@SprocketShop.com> 

  Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and
  deserve to get it good and hard.
	-- H.L. Mencken