Confused about Zorin source code

[DarkPenquin]

Zorin has several flavors.. Core is the "free" version but they also sell versions for Business, Games, Multimedia and one called Zorin OS 5 Ultimate that has everything.

Don't they have to offer the source code for each version to anyone who wants to download it.. even if they made modifications to the code.. except for any closed source they used?

If that's true, where is the source code for Zorin OS 5 Ultimate ? I cannot find it. All Zorin products use the GNU GLP version 3 license.

Another thing they are doing I don't understand is selling PC's bundled with both Windows 7 and Zorin OS and set up to dual boot. I didn't know the Microsoft EULA allowed that but that's for another forum.

[oz]

I've never used Zorin, but if it's based on Ubuntu which is forked from Debian, and it uses apt for installing packages like Debian and Ubuntu do, you might be able to use apt to pull up the source packages like in the following example:

apt-get source package_name

Of course, you'll have to have the source repos listed in your sources.list file.

You can check the following link for more info on pulling in source packages using apt:

APT HOWTO - Working with source packages

If that doesn't work, I'd recommend asking on the Zorin Forum (zoringroup.com/forum/) about where you can download available source code files.

Note that it's been quite a while since I last used any Debian related distro, so some or all of the above may no longer apply if they've changed things.