china buying software

[Anthony Papillion]

On 1/20/2011 12:36 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> 
> So Jan Claeys' comment that:
> 
>> there are probably as many illegal copies of linux
>> made/sold in China as there are illegal copies of Windows,
> 
> is in fact dead wrong. It would be lots of copies of perfectly-legal
> Linux versus lots of pirated Windows.

Not necessarily. Doesn't the GPL specify that users must have access to
the source code either on the CD or by a notice of where they can obtain
it? So, if a distributor doesn't include either of those, would that not
make the copy 'illegal' by GPL standards?

Anthony