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BaseTen		Nov 20 2007

LARKOST  Note that the developer is purposely misinterpreting the GPL. If you use this for internal use only you have no obligation to distribute the code. I emailed the developer a while ago with this, and their reaction was that they decided to interpret it otherwise for financial reasons.

This FAQ from GNU (the writers of the GPL) makes this clear:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic  
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BaseTen		Nov 20 2007

MARKONEN  I have modified the licensing information on the BaseTen web site to more closely reflect our view on this issue.

As authors of the GPL, the Free Software Foundation's opinion on this issue is of course important. But the FAQ you mention is a very general one, and does not address many of the practical concerns in using GPL'ed software inside an organization without making the source available.

Trolltech, a major GPL dual license vendor, has this take on the issue: http://troll.no/developer/knowledgebase/190/  
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