From: Fergal Daly (fergal at domain esatclear.ie)
Date: Wed 17 May 2000 - 14:11:52 IST
At 13:51 17/05/00, David Murphy wrote:
>Quoting <4.3.1.0.20000517132809.00bfd460 at domain pop.esatclear.ie>
>by Fergal Daly <fergal at domain esatclear.ie>:
>
> > The interesting question is, has it been "distributed" to an
> > employee who uses it, if so there is no nothing the company can do
> > prevent that employee passing it on and passing on the source code,
>
>No. An employee is a part of the company, hence use by employees is
>internal use.
The GPL doesn't mention "internal use" as being excepted. Would it be
internal use for "contractors"? How about you write some whizz bang app
based on a GPL program and you distribute it by making people pay to become
contractors for your company, it's internal use, they have no rights to the
source.
Just because you're distributing it internally doesn't mean you can ignore
the GPL, so any of your employees are perfectly entitled to get the source
from you and give it to whoever they want and you have no comeback, or do you?
Fergal
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