Philippe Verdy wrote:
> The access rights to the source for sublicencees remain
apparently indefinitely, and this is a severe problem.
No, the GPL states that they need only "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."
They need only
provide source for three years in accordance with the
written offer (or
they don't have to provide source to third parties at all if
they
distribute it with the binaries).
Matt Flaschen
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