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Re:A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss ... by singlow on Friday May 12, 2017 @11:14AM (#14324682)
This is correct - you not only must include the source code for your binary, you also must include it under the same terms as the original source code.
Re:A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss ... by orbitingpluto on Friday May 12, 2017 @08:02PM (#14328868)
So if someone just happens to distribute the source code for Hancom Office before this is resolved in the courts, would he or she be in the free and clear?
Re:A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss ... by fourthark on Saturday May 13, 2017 @11:29PM (#14334073)
A license can't affect the copyright of any other code. So Hancom is just in violation of the GPL and has lost its right to use Ghostscript; it's not automatically GPL'd.
Re:A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss ... by bdowling on Sunday May 14, 2017 @05:42AM (#14334933)
This is correct. Without a license, Hancom is liable for copyright infringement of the Artifex code if it continues distributing its product. It will be forced to either buy a license or reform its product to use an alternative, but it won't be forced to release its source code.
Re:A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss ... by memmcgee on Saturday May 13, 2017 @01:57AM (#14329715)
Probably not. It's unlikely either party will want this to go to trial so it'll probably end in a settlement where the company buys a license on top of damages.