On 8/22/08, Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, John Calcote wrote:
> >
> > As someone has already mentioned, the rules of the GPL *ONLY* apply to
> > non-originators. The purpose of the GPL is to protect the rights of the
> > originator. The originator of software und
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According to Fritz Code on 8/25/2008 12:00 AM:
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> But the build-system I'm using at the moment uses prefix to specify the
> location of the toolchain on the host.
> E.g. --prefix /opt/devel/arm7/
Correct - --prefix is for the host machine.
>
> But
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According to Eric Blake on 8/3/2008 5:39 PM:
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> | That's not to say the default mode need necessarily be compatible, but
> | at least detecting that we are running inside autoconf and setting the
> | right options to work without patching would be t
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Ineiev wrote:
I read the GPL as "we give you the program under the condition that
you shall not distribute it in other way than such and such".
I thought there was no clause "we promise to do this and that".
It is nothing other than getting from the originator
under the term
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
GPL is often called "copyleft". It is copyrighted code which depends on the
real copyright holder to defend it, but assures the rights (to the source
code) of anyone who receives a binary program based on the work. If the
copyright holders for a wo
