Re: IBM doesn't like the GPL

[Hyman Rosen]

Rjack wrote:
> Hyman Rosen wrote:
> > When someone creates a program which includes another's copyrighted 
> > work, they are forbidden to make and distribute copies by 17 USC 106 
> > (1), and so must obtain authorization from the rights holder to do so.
>
> Section 1 of the GPL allows such copying:
>  "1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
> source code as you receive it,

How is it that you fail to read the words "source code" in the above
GPL excerpt? When you incorporate a GPLed library into a new work and
copy and distribute that new work, you are not distributing the source
code, much less a verbatim copy of it.