On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:57:09PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > mmix-src part GPL. part Donald Knuth license - modified files must be > > > renamed and clearly identified. why is this in non-free?
> On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 13:38, Raul Miller wrote: > > We probably don't have the legal right to distribute that one. The Knuth > > license imposes an additional restriction beyond the GPL, and the GPL > > itself says that that means you're not allowed to distribute it. On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:54:30PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Only true if it incorporates someone else's GPL source. If it is all > the author's own work, he can do whatever he likes and the licence > becomes a composite of the GPL and his additional restrictions. But we're not the author. Yeah, the author always has the right to copy and distribute the files, but I don't see how that applies here. Also, at leat in the U.S., distributing source and distributing binaries are legally the same thing. Otherwise, distributing binaries wouldn't be restricted by a copyright on the source. If the grant of copyright grants some exception to this rule, that's a different issue. The bits on the wire aren't the issue. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
