"J.H.M. Dassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > quoting http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html:
> :Consider GNU Objective C. NeXT initially wanted to make this front end > :proprietary; they proposed to release it as .o files, and let users link > :them with the rest of GCC, thinking this might be a way around the GPL's > :requirements. But our lawyer said that this would not evade the > :requirements, that it was not allowed. Hm, it would be interesting to know the legal reasoning behind that conclusion. Section 2 of the GPL seems only to place restrictions on how one can *distribute* modified programs - as far as I can see it does not require the modified program to be free as long as it is not distributed. 2(a) and 2(c) still holds for non-distributed modified programs, but 2(b) which is the one that requires GPLing the modifications explicitly only talks about distribution. -- Henning Makholm
