Re: Hole in GPL

2000-12-31 Thread Omer Zak
However, the GPL does say: 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 u

Re: Hole in GPL

2000-12-31 Thread Ariel Biener
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Moshe Zadka wrote: I think that the law does take into account what is common knowledge, and what is a general accepted idea. You can also claim that that thing you drive in (4 wheels and a engine) is called a "kachabooboo". There are no laws for speeding or no parking or o

Hole in GPL

2000-12-31 Thread Moshe Zadka
In the long, glorious and quite idiotic tradition of finding stupid ways of going around the GPL, I submit the following dumb idea. The GPL does attempt to define ``source code'', but here's an easy way to go around that definition. What if you write an IDE, which saves the files in some undocume