Hi!
13-Фев-2004 10:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kaiser) wrote
to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> 2. Again: exepackers are non-essential part of program, which adds stub for
>> _existing and working_ code, so they can't be counted as "modules, which
>> program contains". This is unlike compilers, from which program contains
>> (uses) RTL.
SK> Nope: GPL is generally considered a source-only license, but in fact it
SK> plainly says: The user you distribute a Program to must be able to
SK> reproduce it. <point> When the user needs a component to exepack it, in
SK> order to reproduce it, you MUST give the user an exepack'er.
Exepacker _isn't_ required for _working executable_ reproduction. And
GPL doesn't says that recompiled (reproduced) executable should be 100%
identical.
SK> Again: As I wrote, it is not the stub that matters, but the fact that the
SK> exepacker modifies the Program,
Exepacker modifies _not_ a _Program_, but program _image_. If I paste
sticker to diskette, where program contained, thus I modify program?!
SK> which is protected under GPL and GPL is the _only_ license that allows you
SK> to modify it. (Well, this sentence is more or less a quote from the GPLv2).
SK> Therefore, I assume that you have to make clear that the exepack'ed
SK> executable is not what is distributed to the user, but merely the delivery
SK> method.
Yes, of course.
>> But later user passes Stacker volume (as file) with GPLed software
>> inside. Should it also pass Stacker sources?
SK> As I also already wrote: GPL covers the ___distribution___, not the run of
SK> the Program.
GPL doesn't covers _methods_ of distribution and delivery media (is it
"plain" executable or executable inside archive).
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