[OT] some weird GPL licensing questions

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Mon Feb 9 21:25:13 GMT 2004


On Monday 09 February 2004 22:12, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> wrote:
> > So here we go:
> > AFAIK the GPL mainly says that if you have the binary version of
> > something you have the right to get the sources of this version.
>
> Yes, but only _from_ the person who gave you the binary.  If you give
> binar+source to party B and party B give a binary-only to party C, then
> party C can't force _you_ to give source.

This is new to me. Which part of the GPL says this ?

Bye
Alex
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