[ILUG] GPLv3 last days for comment, and other news links

Frank Duignan frank.duignan at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 11:29:57 IST 2007


Well the reason it relates is to do with the distribution of source code -
also applies to gplv2 I suppose.  If you take a compiler output and convert
it to an ascii header file to be included as a blob "source code" in a
strictly legal sense?

On 07/06/07, paul at clubi.ie <paul at clubi.ie> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Frank Duignan wrote:
>
> > On the matter of source code:  Suppose a manufacturer includes a header
> file
> > with the opcodes for a drive declared in a byte array.  Is this source
> > code?
>
> Exactly how this question relates to the GPLv3 you seem to have
> omitted..
>
> The answer is: No.
>
> regards,
> --
> Paul Jakma      paul at clubi.ie   paul at jakma.org  Key ID: 64A2FF6A
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>



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