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koenigdavidmj
on June 30, 2012
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The "Everyone gets the source code, donations get ...
The problem is that you also need to supply the dependencies that you used to build it (makefiles and such).
jules
on June 30, 2012
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Certainly. I'm not saying it's a viable business model. As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, one person could even buy the pre-built binaries and freely redistribute them. The GPL allows this. However the parent is still factually wrong.
zem
on June 30, 2012
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not to people to whom he's not distributing a binary
georgemcbay
on June 30, 2012
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But once he distributes them to one person who gets the binary that person can distribute them freely to everyone else.
zem
on July 2, 2012
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and he's perfectly fine with that
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