Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Apr 1996 01:09:05 -0400 (EDT) | From | Kevin M Bealer <> | Subject | Re: New sound maintainer? |
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On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Tyson D Sawyer wrote:
(clip) > > It also wouldn't work. Suppose you have one of these Slowaris boxes (no C > > compiler), or you just buy a PC (no C compiler, no tar, no gzip, no make, > > no *anything*...) how _do_ you get that box to run something more sensible? > > I know that there are zealots that may flame me for this, but source only > distribution is not only impractcal, as noted above, but it would kill > Linux's potential as a useful alternative to Winblows. Linux could never (clip)
I agree but how is it possible in any case? Doesn't the GPL give the right to distribute binaries? And all such rights passed on to *all derived works*?
So if Linux 1.3.91 is GPL'd under today's GPL, doesn't the whole of it need to be rewritten to go to a 'source only'? i.e. to not be a derived work, and thus to not inherit those rights?
__kmb203@psu.edu_____________________________Debian/GNU__Linux__1.3.77___ The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
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