* Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [09.07.08 15:14]: > Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If you _carefully_ read the GPL (lawyers do it, I did it but Debian > > > doesn't), > > > you will find the following important fact: > > > > > > The GPL uses the phrase "under the terms of this License" in all places > > > except > > > the place where it requires "the scripts used to control compilation" to > > > be > > > made available. > > > > > > > " The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for > > making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source > > code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any > > associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to > > control compilation and installation of the executable." >
> The GPL discriminates between "the work" (which needs to be under GPL) > and "the complete source" which is a superset of "the work" and other parts > that do not need to be under GPL. > Nowhere in the whole GPL is stated that "the complete source code" is a superset of "the work". "The work" is only used to refer ro projects which *use* "the Program", which is the term used for the primary object of the licence. > Jörg > Read again yourself, brother Sebastian -- " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " Karl Marx [EMAIL PROTECTED]@N GÜNTHER mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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