On 10/12/2017 12:07 PM, Kurt Jacobson wrote:
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Tormach says they don't support path pilot on 3rd party equipment. It
likely
depends on specialized hardware so it would not run without modification
and I don't think they have source code available.
As a derivative of a GPL licensed project I thought that they would be
required to make the source available.
You are correct. Their code links with our GPL code, so they are
required to make their source code available.
Has anybody asked for the source to see what they say? The little I have
dealt with them they
always seemed very forthcoming with information and to be straight forward
and honest folks.
This agrees with my assessment of Tormach's position.
In the early days of PathPilot I asked them for their source code, and
they snail-mailed me a CD with it. Not my preferred distribution
method, but it does satisfy the letter of the law as I understand it.
My understanding is that they *must* provide source code (upon request)
to anyone that they have distributed their binaries to, and they *may*
provide source code to anyone else who asks.
They could do a better job of being a citizen in the LinuxCNC
open-source community, but that's obviously optional.
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Sebastian Kuzminsky
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