On 5/26/05, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > > 2) distribution as part of a binary module, without necessarily > > any copyright notice attached, which would be a pain. Since the > > GPL gives access to the source of the driver when the binary > > module is available, it also gives access by transition to the > > copyright notice in question under 1). > > If the GPL compells you to provide the copyright notice under 1), then > it compells you to provide the source to this binary snippet. [You > can't have it doing one without it also doing the other.]
Copyright notice is a good idea as a general rule -- not just in the context of the GPL. -- Raul