Richard, Richard Stallman wrote: > Wouldn't it make sense to add a paragraph to the GPL, stating that a > company using GPL software in their system must also provide all that > documentation to their customers? Only then the SW modification can be > properly done? > > It is not possible for a software license to require this in general. > It may be possible to require this in the case where the software is > delivered with a product. For GPLv4, we could think about whether > this is a good idea. But we are not yet working on a GPLv4.
Obviously I should have set the <ironic> tag explicitly. Please don't do that. And if you do, please don't point to me as the originator of that idea. Because I think my "idea" is bad. wkr, Thomas. -- -------------------------------------------- Embedded Brains GmbH Thomas Doerfler Obere Lagerstrasse 30 D-82178 Puchheim Germany email: thomas.doerf...@embedded-brains.de Phone: +49-89-18908079-2 Fax: +49-89-18908079-9 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
