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Re: GPL and other licences
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Isaac |
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Re: GPL and other licences |
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Wed, 01 Feb 2006 20:51:25 -0600 |
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On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:00:51 +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org> wrote:
> This should be pretty easy to resolve. Show me the license
> provision of the GPL that allows me to combine (and not distribute)
> GPL code that is broken when I combine (but do not distribute) GPL
> and non GPL code. I don't believe you can find a provision that
> does this. You can only find provisions which disallow
> distribution of funky combinations.
>
> See the GNU GPL, section 2. You are not required to distribute the
> changes, you are required to follow the license.
>
Section 2 tells me that I can modify and distribute as long as I meet
all of the three provisions 2(a), (b) and (c). Those provisions are
extremely easy to meet no matter what I combine GPL code with unless I intend
to distribute.
If I try to distribute, I have to distribute the combination under the GPL
as required by part 2(b). If it is impossible to do so, then I cannot
distribute. But if I want to combine on my own system without distribution,
I must comply with part (a) which just requires annotating the modified
source code modules. If my program does not read commands interactively,
then I need to nothing to comply with part (c).
Quite frankly, I would be surprised if any copyright holder cared the
least whether I ever got around to annotating source code modules that
I don't distribute or whether some program on my system failed to spit
out a no-warranty notice.
Isaac
- Re: GPL and other licences, (continued)
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- Re: GPL and other licences, David Kastrup, 2006/02/04
- Re: GPL and other licences, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/02/04
- Re: GPL and other licences, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/02/04
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- Re: GPL and other licences, Isaac, 2006/02/03
- Re: GPL and other licences, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/02/04
Re: GPL and other licences, Isaac, 2006/02/01
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Re: GPL and other licences, Stefaan A Eeckels, 2006/02/02