On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 22:22, Jerome Alet wrote:
say some company (A) enhances your software, install the new combined product on a server appliance, and put the server appliance at a third party company (B, its client), but DOESN'T SELL the server appliance to B. Instead of selling it, A is still the full owner of server appliance, which is installed at B's location only as part of a support contract.
This counts as distribution, in both copyright and droit d'auteur regimes.
Question : does company A violate the GPL or not by not distributing full source code under the terms of the GPL to B ?
Yes, A violates the GNU GPL. If you believe that a company is violating the GNU licenses please follow instructions reported at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html
regards stef