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From: | Hyman Rosen |
Subject: | Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++ |
Date: | Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:09:03 -0500 |
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On 2/4/2010 4:01 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Hyman Rosen wrote: [...]It is false that permission to copy and distribute source verbatim as part of a collection applies to a statically linked executable.Sez who?The English language.Please quote what you mean.
A statically linked executable contains binary versions of libraries, modified by a linker program which changes embedded values within the binaries in order to make them refer to other portions of the whole executable. This is therefore not a verbatim copy of the source of the code.
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