Re: Re: Licensing Question

Jan-Benedict Glaw <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.arch.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2006-03-16 16:40:05 -0800, Thomas Lord <[email protected]> wrote:
> Matthew:
> >>  If I discover that you have made a binary derived from the sources I
> > I don't get it; Centos is still going ok.
> 
> Centos can take my GNU Hello sources, compile them, and distribute
> those binaries (assuming they make source available and take pains
> to exclude my additional file with restrictive copyright).

Do you want to distribute a GPLd program along with a (more or less
_needed) additional file, which is under restrictive copyright?  In
this case, you'll probably have to play some games to make _your_
distribution of sources comply with GPL...

MfG, JBG

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