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2008-08-20 , 20:25
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Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post
According to the Impatica employee with whom I've corresponded, they will provide complete corresponding source upon request via postal mail (and payment for media cost). I have not yet mailed my request, but I will be doing so.
Thanks for all that: very interesting stuff.

As for the GPL compliance, their reading of it (apart from not providing the necessary declarations along with the binaries) is perfectly within the letter of the licence, AIUI (I wasn't even aware of the AnonFTP "clarification" until now). It's fairly similar to Nokia's handling of the GPL (certainly in earlier OS releases) and, as long as they do send you the sources, perfectly fine.

Once you've got the sources, they can't stop you republishing them, of course.

Please, don't go all Slashdot-stupid on Impatica. I've held off posting information on the ShowMate before now because I don't want them attacked. I'm hoping with some polite encouragement, they'll fully comply with the GPL. Email threats and insults will not help matters.
Hear hear!
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