Hi Paul,
Thanks for the quick reply.
I'll probably run a draft of my work by you, to offer you the opportunity
to comment further, probably in a few weeks.
Shall I cc: Jim Meyering too?
-- Terence
On Thu, 25 Aug 2022, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 8/24/22 22:55, Terence Kelly wrote:
(Plan Zero) Write a little shell script that (a) downloads the grep-3.7
tarball, (b) unpacks it, (c) applies a small patch to a single .c source
file, which adds roughly ten new lines of code, (d) builds the grep
executable by calling ./configure, make, and make check, (e) applies my
stand-alone general-purpose Munger tool to the grep executable, and (f)
runs the resulting "munged" executable to show how my Munger tool changes
the behavior of grep.
I'm happy to apply GPL to the script described above. My reading of GPL is
that a stand-alone general-purpose tool like my Munger need not be GPL'd
merely because it touches the grep executable. (I might apply a GNU license
such as Affero to the Munger tool anyway; I haven't decided yet.)
I'd also be happy to arrange for the patch applied in step (c) above to
insert a notice that the affected .c source file has been modified.
This all sounds good. One little thing: the step (3) notice must contain a
relevant date, as per GPL section 5(a).
Thanks for asking about this.
