GPL Terms (Was: AMIOPEN: etc....)
Mike Coleman
mkc at mathdogs.com
Fri Aug 24 00:56:03 CDT 2001
Monty Harder <lists at kc.rr.com> writes:
> So what exactly constitutes "providing" a binary? If I let you rlogin into
> my machine and you run a binary that I've compiled from modified GPL source,
> do I have to give you that source?
...
> If I seem to be beating a dead horse here, it's because the precise location
> of this line will be hugely important if MS tries to embrace and expend Linux
> via .NET....
It's a good question and a good point. I don't know exactly where the line
is, or where it should be, but I think it's an important issue.
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Mike Coleman, mkc at mathdogs.com
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