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Originally Posted by delphidb96
What if, and I think this quite possible, the manufacturer has stated to Bookeen that it fully intends to comply? In that case, Bookeen had, and has, every right to sell the device as it is working under the Good Faith presumption the manufacturer will follow through.
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According to the letter of the license, you can only distribute a GPL software if you also make the source code available (to whoever you distribute the software to, it doesn't have to be freely availabe to anyone). If you get a GPL software from someone else and they don't give you the source code, they're doing wrong, but also you
cannot distribute is, because if someone asks you for the source code you won't be able to provide it. Bookeen may be working under good faith, but they're still not complying with the GPL license.
They could, at least, say who their suppliers are and state something like "for obtaining the source code of the GPL parts, please address to This and That, ltd."