Rex Dieter wrote:
Russ wrote:
Does the GPL say that the source must be provided to your customers or does it need to be freely available?
Read the GPL. :)
Yes, you probably have about a thousand instances of the COPYING file on your disk...
Oh, ok (spoiler alert)... only to those to which they distribute binaries (ie, customers). That detail is lost on many folks.
You also can't restrict them from redistributing either the binaries or the source after they have received their copies. You must include source for all parts of the 'work as a whole' of anything that contains any GPL'd code. Note that not CentOS programs are under the GPL, and it does not apply to separate application programs you write that are simply included along with the OS (unless they include GPL'd components).