[ltp] Re: mwavem-2.0 released

Justin Georgeson linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:57:38 -0500


Has a request for the source code been turned down? I thought GPL only 
said you have to provide the source, upon request, to those whom you 
have distributed the binary.

Thomas Hood wrote:
> Thanks for the new release.
> 
> Debian needs clarification of the license on the DSP binaries which
> are included in the package.
> 
> These are supposedly licensed under the GPL, but they come without
> source code.  That doesn't make too much sense, so the validity of
> the license becomes questionable, with the result being that the
> right to distribute the binaries becomes questionable.  Could we
> get some clarification from IBM that we are (at least) free to
> distribute the DSP binaries?
> --
> Thomas Hood
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