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.

-- 
Mike Coleman, mkc at mathdogs.com
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