Subject Re: [Firebird-general] idpl/ipl/mpl license
Author Ann W. Harrison
Bogusław Brandys wrote:

>
> Hmm,maybe - but I was under impression that GPL does not specify that
> source code must be available to *all or any person*.Just : If you have
> got a binary then you could also ask for sources and you must have
> possibility to download them or retrieve in other ways.

Actually, if you get the binary, you must also get either the
source or a pointer to the source, and you are free to redistribute
both the binary and the source, without restriction. So software
developers building applications that use GPL'd code must allow
any of their customers to publish their code.

All it takes is one person - or a group of people - to buy one
copy ... then the buyers can make the sources available to
everyone.


Best,


Ann