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Subject: Re: "Preferred form of work" Re: Keyspan Firmware fun
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:47:22PM -0600, Walter Landry wrote:
> > What about if the preferred form changes? For example, you have two
> > authors, one who keeps the program as a literate program and th
> > The simple answer is that the code must be in the preferred form of
> > the person distributing the code.
>
> But where does it say that in the GPL, or in the DFSG? That has too
> many funky implications for me to like that answer. If A gives code
> to B, the whole point of free software is
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:47:22PM -0600, Walter Landry wrote:
> > What about if the preferred form changes? For example, you have two
> > authors, one who keeps the program as a literate program and the
> > other one who keeps it as straight source, and they convert it whenever
> > they exchange
> What about if the preferred form changes? For example, you have two
> authors, one who keeps the program as a literate program and the
> other one who keeps it as straight source, and they convert it whenever
> they exchange code. Is the preferred form literate or illiterate? Can
> the literate
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