Wired Article on the GPL
Chip Salzenberg
chip at valinux.com
Fri Mar 31 21:52:32 UTC 2000
According to John Cowan:
> Richard Watts wrote:
> > Suppose A gives me a piece of software, X, and agrees to licence it
> > to me under the GPL. The GPL allows me to do a number of things, but,
> > critically, section 3 requires me to distribute source code with my
> > binaries - that's a consideration. It's clearly valuable.
>
> Shaky. It requires you to distribute source code only if you distribute
> binaries.
Well, consider the possibility that we can get a court to agree that
the GPL is an enforceable contract if binaries are distributed. Isn't
that really the situation we are most concerned about?
--
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip at valinux.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early." // MST3K
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