[robmusial]

> Whether this is in line with the spirit of the GPL or not is another story. But at least as I understand it, it does not violate the GPL.

I'm fairly zealous about Free Software and I don't think this is even against the spirit of the GPL.

Many of the writings and talks from RMS on gnu.org talk about how it is perfectly fine for a company to modify GPL'd software for internal use only and not be required to redistribute those changes because you're not redistributing the binaries. If it is fine for companies to do that and not be considered a bad actor violating the spirit of the GPL this seems to me to be in the same moral sentiment. At the end of the day if you have the binary you have source and all 4 freedoms associated with it and you truly control your computing.