GPL licensed software installed on commercial hardware
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Published on 2012-09-26T16:30:17Z
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Do vendors need to provide sources, at the customer's request, for GPL licensed software installed on the hardware they sell?
For example, a vendor sells an IPTV box and pre-installs some proprietary software product which is linked with some GPLed library. As a consequence, the software becomes GPLed itself.
Does the vendor need to provide the source code for it? The vendor doesn't sell that software, he sells hardware.
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