On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

> GPL requires that you provide the sources of code you link with the
> GPL-ed code. LGPL relaxes this to excempt dynamically linked stuff. For
> embedded things this means that if you use GPL-ed code (in a product
> that you sell or give away) you are obliged to provide the source. In
> most cases this is not something you want to do, but even if you want to
> do it: imagine a customer buying a valentine card with a uC that plays
> some lovely tune. If the uC code contains GPLed code that customer must
> get the source to it, and a copy of the GPL/LGPL text.

No. The customer has the right to request the GPL'd code on demand. They
don't have to be given the source. A very good example of this is Linksys.

-marc

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