What good is VNC's GPL?

[Steve Bostedor]

They are violating the GPL by not including the source and a copy of the
GPL.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Miller [mailto:mbmiller "at" taxa.epi.umn.edu] 
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 1:28 AM
To: Steve Bostedor
Cc: Sean Kamath; Yann Renard; Grant McDorman; VNC List
Subject: RE: What good is VNC's GPL? 


On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Steve Bostedor wrote:

> This is all just fantasy talk, anyways.  We KNOW that theirs is a
> modified VNC because they spell it out on their website.  Who cares, I

> guess.  It looks like everyone's doing it.  Integrity and doing the 
> right thing just doesn't matter for anything these days, I guess.
Kiss 
> the GPL good-bye on this one.

What did they do that was wrong.  They say that their software uses VNC.

That's not wrong.  They sell it for money -- also not wrong.  I'll sell 
you a copy of Xvnc for $500 and I'll call it "Mike's VNC."  That's not 
wrong (because I'll include the source code, copyright, GPL, etc.).

Are they violating the GPL, or are we just imagining that they must be 
violating the GPL?

Mike