On Tue, 2007-30-01 at 11:54 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > This refrain keeps getting repeated, but still no one has explained > how distributing a form of the work which is _not_ the prefered form > for modification satisfies section 3 of the GPL:
So, I think we all readily admit that _some_ transformations on the original source (like compression) are acceptable. The distributed source code does not need to be bitwise identical with the source edited by the developer to be the preferred form. I think we'd all be pretty comfortable with some other transforms, like \r\n -> \n line ending conversion or character set changes. I think that, instead of hewing to the line that any transforms on the code are unacceptable -- clearly unsupportable -- we should probably deal with this particular case and whether this particular transform is acceptable. ~Evan -- Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Debian Project (http://www.debian.org/)
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