On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Andreas Pour wrote: > Don Sanders wrote: > > GNU e?grep, version 1.6 > > Grep (the binary) does contain the following:
I see this message in grep 2.3 but not 1.6. (At the time I was logged into a stable machine that doesn't get upgraded very often). But either way I think we agree the binary isn't licensed under the GPL. > > <offtopic> > > I'm wondering if this means the binary is put in the public domain? This > > could be a serious problem for GPLed Java code, as Java decompilers are > > very good. </offtopic> > > If there is no license Ok, so our greps are under no license, that's a lot better than being in the public domain. (/me Breathes sigh of relief). , then distribution is not permitted -- it is still > copyrighted. However, the license to the source code (the GPL) does permit > redistribution of the binary. Perhaps this would only hold true if in fact > you have a copy of the source code, and thus have received a license, but > distributors do have such a copy. Ok, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks for clearing that up. BFN, Don.
