Re: Is the GPL all encompassing?

[Hyman Rosen]

amicus_curious wrote:
> I would agree that providing source code itself is enough to enable a 
> user to do all of that regardless of the fact that changes are so 
> unlikely to ever occur.  The GPL only adds a provision to enforce this 
> on someone who might be unwilling to do so with some improvement absent 
> the requirement to divulge any new source.  I think that this would 
> never happen in any case. I don't think that it has ever happened in the 
> past either.  Who but the project team has ever made any change to any 
> major project?

I'm sorry, but I don't follow what you are saying - too many "this"
where I can't tell to what "this" refers.