Re: [tlug] GPL question (again!)

[Claus Aranha <caranha@example.com>]

Not Steve but...

I have been looking at some troubles regarding GPL licensing in
projects I'm interested. As far as I can tell, if the copyright of the
code belongs to the company (as opposed to the employee) AND the
company has not distributed the code to a third party, the company can
remove the GPL notice without problems.

If the company has distributed this code to the third party, it still
can remove the notice, but the copy that the third party possess is
still licensed by the GPL.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
> I have a completely hypothetical question for the GPL experts on the
> list (I'm looking at you, Steve).
>
> Let's say that some company has a piece of backend software with a
> REST interface. Let's also say that some idiotic developer stuck a GPL
> notice at the top of some of the source code files, despite the fact
> that no GPL code is linked in. This source has never been distributed
> in any way, nor have the compiled binaries. The binaries have only
> ever run on servers belonging to the hypothetical company for which
> the idiotic developer no longer works.
>
> Can the company legally remove the GPL notice from the source files?
>
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
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