are there commercial utilisation constraints? (1 Viewer)

[sando@it]

Hi all, i have an urgent matter

a company startup is close to launch a new electronic multimedia device. due to complexities in the previous media platform the idea is to use mediaportal, personalised to the specific use.
are there commercial constraints with GPL? for instance, the final user of the device must only "use" the software functionalities, without having the possibility to access to source code. this is for obvious reliability reasons: the customer uses the device as is, if they change something the company gets in trouble with postsale support.
is this fine with the software licence?

thanks in advantace for you reply

 

[tourettes]

If you modify the GPL licensed code and distribute the binaries based on that code then you need to make available the source code. So, in short you need to make the source codes available when doing any customization for MediaPortal.

 

[sando@it]

thanks a lot for the explanation tourettes!

one further doubt, tourette: the source code must be made available to the final user or to the community, by posting the code there?
thx!