On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 02:00:27PM -0800, Walter Landry wrote: > Section 3 gives you rights in addition to section 2. Section 3 lets > you distribute a particular kind of modification that is not allowed > in Section 2 (a modification that incorporates things that can not be > licensed under the GPL). But Debian is not doing that, so there is no > need to resort to section 3.
This sounds wrong to me, because the requirement to include source code is only in section 3. And section 3 specifically says "distribute under the terms of Sections 1 and 2", so it can't be more permissive than those sections. In fact, it imposes an extra requirement. If we go by your interpretation, then any self-contained GPL executable (for example, a flash image for an embedded linux system) can be distributed without source code. I read section 3 as being an additional restriction on modifications that are also "object code or executable form". The open question is then whether an executable script is in "executable form". Richard Braakman
