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Re: What counts as "distribution"
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David Golden |
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Re: What counts as "distribution" |
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Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:44:52 +0100 |
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David Kastrup wrote:
> The GPL guarantees that you get source code included
> with the source code
(Of course you meant source code with the binary code)
> In fact, with the
> increasing complexity of high level languages and compilers, source
> code gets increasingly more important:
Well, I do think a frosty legal climate has probably slowed research
into very-high-level decompilation tools a bit. I'm not sure
whether the rise of open source and free[libre] software would speed
such research up (more test cases) or slow it down (less actual point).
> Whether or not the abolishment of copyright would offset the
> disadvantages of the abolishment of the GPL's source code provision
> enforcement could make a topic for long and utterly academic
> discussions.
Indeed. :-)