Re: Licensing special software
"Arkady V.Belousov" <[email protected]>
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X-Comment-To: Arkady V.Belousov Hi! 28-Окт-2002 21:31 [email protected] (Arkady V.Belousov) wrote to [email protected]: AVB> I.e. "input", which control actions of subject, is source code for AVB> subject. Some source code used to generate other source code (translation), AVB> other source code used to perform more generic actions (preprocessing, AVB> interpretation - yes, CPUs _interpret_ "machine code"). If some source code AVB> (.EXE) is result of translation from other source code and translation is AVB> deterministic, then secondary source code may be called "executables", AVB> "binaries", etc. See Topic 3 of GPL, where mentioned "object code", AVB> "exectable form, "executable" and "binary form". I casually remove one more note. Translation process may be multistep: .C-.OBJ-.EXE. In this case intermediate files usually called "object files", but they are not differs from executables in sense of dependens from "primary" source code.