On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 02:08, Nick Phillips wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 02:27:29AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > > You're the one amending "selected from those forms which are available > > to you." The GPL *doesn't say that*. Maybe it's your definition of > > source, but it's not the GPL's. > > I knew someone would come up with that. There is however no other reasonable > interpretation of the GPL possible.
We've provided one. You don't like it, but that by itself doesn't nullify its reasonableness. > If you take your argument to its logical conclusion then I can immediately > prevent you from distributing, say, gcc by going through the sources, > improving the comments, and refusing to distribute my new version at all. Wow. Now that's a wild claim if I ever saw one. I'll bite; how exactly does this happen? Where do you see this in the GPL?
