On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Mike Miller wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Josh Paetzel wrote: > >> I disagree strongly with the suggestion that a microwave is a piece of >> software, and it seems that the industry is of the same opinion. > > Of course, no one said that a microwave is a piece of software (or even > that a microwave oven is a piece of software), but we did say that if it > is running Linux inside, and it is being sold, then software is being > copied and distributed and the GPL applies to that use of the software. Example: See below from the Source Code Release FAQ at gpl-violations.org http://gpl-violations.org/faq/sourcecode-faq.html What version of the source code do I have to release? For each and every version of the executable program, you have to release the precisely corresponding version of the complete corresponding source code. So if you have distributed ten different versions of firmware for an embedded product, and this firmware contains GPL licensed software, then you need to release ten different source code packages, each one corresponding for each executable version. Mike