[vlc-devel] Re: SkyOS

[Christophe Massiot]

À (At) 17:52 -0500 29/11/03, Adam K Kirchhoff écrivait (wrote) :

>  > Mr. Szeleney from SkyOS has written me to inform me that the source code
>>  for VLC/SkyOS, complete with their modifications, is available for mail
>>  order from their company. This would make them compliant with GPL.
>>  There's no clause in the GPL that says that the internet HAS to be the
>>  medium for downloading the source code.
>
>I'm certainly willing to let this drop.  However, I would point out that
>the current release of SkyOS is 4.0a, and it ships with the modified VLC
>player, yet he refuses to ship any source code till 5.0 is released.  Nor
>does 4.0a include a written offer for the source code.
>
>If the VLC developers see no problems with this, then I'm certainly happy
>to leave it at that :-)

Actually, the GPL is all about protecting the end user's rights, so 
that they are not stuck with a binary-only program they can't modify. 
So you're probably as entitled as us to protest about this.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.

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