Blackduck Software and IP

[Tom Buskey]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Kevin D. Clark
<kevin_d_clark at comcast.net>wrote:

>
> Jeff Macdonald writes:
>
> > But, as I said before, we don't distribute any code.
>
> You've made this statement twice now, but I myself don't understand
> how this is relevant to the issue at hand.
>

>
> The common licenses that are being discussed here do not have language
> in them that reads "if you don't distribute code, you're fine" because
> under certain circumstances that's exactly what you have to do --
> distribute your code.
>


If you distribute the compiled code (binaries) of GPL'd software, you must
make the SOURCE code available at a reasonable fee and not restrict further
distribution.

If you don't distribute the binaries, you don't have to make the source
available.

I think the confusion is over what "code" refers to.  Instead, use binaries
and source so there's no ambiguity.
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