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IANAL but does GPL not require the source code be made available for any publicly released binary builds?

@cgarz with a name like this app, who knows

IANAL but does GPL not require the source code be made available for any publicly released binary builds?

It was open source before but coz of some ppl i make it private they are modified my code and start to sell them without give credit or permission.

I see. That's unfortunate. If they forked the code then that code would also be covered by GPL and they would have to also provide source code. Selling binary builds I think is actually allowed so long as the source is provided. If not it should be possible to take legal action against them or depending on where it was hosted have the offending builds taken down.

It's just pretty weird to have a GPL project with no source available. It might also not be allowed like I mentioned at first, or it might be alright since you are the author but IANAL of course.

I see. That's unfortunate. If they forked the code then that code would also be covered by GPL and they would have to also provide source code. Selling binary builds I think is actually allowed so long as the source is provided. If not it should be possible to take legal action against them or depending on where it was hosted have the offending builds taken down.

It's just pretty weird to have a GPL project with no source available. It might also not be allowed like I mentioned at first, or it might be alright since you are the author but IANAL of course.

Agree with you but those legal thinks take a lots of time which i dont think worth thats why i removed code.

Yea that's sadly quite true. What about getting the binaries taken down though? Would that not have been viable on the site they were uploaded to?

Or perhaps it might be better to change the license?