On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:48:35AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > > Err, have you read the GPL licence recently ? If it is not specifically into > > every detail, i dont' know what is. There is specific text about binding and > > such, and it makes explicit mentions of distribution of a work linked with > > the > > GPLed work. > > There is not one mention of "link" in the GNU GPL. There is not one > mention of "bind" or "bound". I don't think you're even bothering to > make up consistent nonsense at this point.
But is is supposed to mean the same thing though. > There is this issue, though: it doesn't matter if I break up the .el > files in question into two apparently random bitstrings, send them > separately to the target machine, XOR them back together there, and > then compile them. What matters is that I've built a complicated > machine for putting a compiled file linked with the internal Emacs API > on that system, and so infringed the copyright of the Free Software > Foundation unless I'm doing so within the bounds set by the GPL. Which is why i am removing them from the binary packages until upstream changes his mind. Friendly, Sven Luther
