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Originally Posted by knc1
My English must not have translated well.
"It does not say when" as in meaning: "With what amount of delay in time."
The GPL requires that it be provided (or rather, made available) after release of the binary to anyone who obtains the binary.
That is a definition of one sense of the word: when (after an event).
Another definition of "when" is that of a time or time period.
Nothing says: "Within 30 days of ..." or any other time.
I.E: Amazon may delay providing you with the sources you requested until 3 years after they where last used in a distributed binary.
Afterwards (greater than 3 years) they are under no obligation of the license.
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Actually, it has to be available in source form as soon as binary is. If they don't provide explicit way to get source, then they're asking for trouble - after asking them for source like I did, I can now say just "I've waited too long for answer". Different situation would be if they said "send your address there and we'll send you CD with sources within 2 weeks" in device manual, or even provided URL for direct download. But they didn't, so it's up to us, Paperwhite owners, to decide if they're already infringing our rights to GPL code.
Contact form said that they'll answer within 12 hours, so I gave them 12 hours
