On 27 Jul 2000, Henning Makholm wrote: > Under the GPL, I must give the *rights* to everyone, because those who > recive the program from me can pass it on to anyone, and this anyone > also get full rights to my modifications. Essentially GPL says: > > 1) you must give your source to those you give binaries, but > 2) you must give your rights to everyone.
I understood, that you have only give rights to all these, that receive source or binaries directly or indirectly by you. If I modify some program written by you. And give it only give it persons, from which I know, they will not distribute it further. (Wihtout me forcing them to or making a licence "you are only allowed to use, when ...". Would I have to give rights of the modified form to you? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link
