Re: Monta Vista software license terms

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:04:36PM -0500, Disconnect wrote:
> What does this "written offer valid for any third party" mean? Does that
> mean everyone in the world can get the source to any GPL'ed program no
> matter what?
>         "Valid for any third party" means that anyone who has the offer
>         is entitled to take you up on it. 
>         
>         If you commercially distribute binaries not accompanied with
>         source code, the GPL says you must provide a written offer to
>         distribute the source code later. When users non-commercially
>         redistribute the binaries they received from you, they must pass
>         along a copy of this written offer. This means that people who
>         did not get the binaries directly from you can still receive
>         copies of the source code, along with the written offer.

Has any user of a mvista-powered embedded device ever seen this offer?..

I guess many of their customers "forgot" that