"Joe Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell, BSG said: > > It seems to me that if you are right, then there is no way to enforce > > the GPL: because then someone could simply modify the object file in > > some interesting and useful way (say, to change a string constant, > > usually pretty easy), and then claim that the C code isn't source at > > all, and thus need not be distributed. > > > > I submit that this is therefore clearly *not* the correct > > interpretation, and that in such a case, the original C code is still > > an essential part of the source, even though it no longer can be > > automatically transformed into the binaries that you are distributing. > > Modifying in an interesting and useful way like running "strip" on the > binary? > I don't think the GPL can be subverted so easily:
Say, to change a string constant, usually pretty easy. I wish I had said that the first time around. Thomas
