Anders Montonen <[email protected]> writes: > On Jun 23, 2009, at 21:20, Freddie Chopin wrote: >> Anders Montonen pisze: >>> Right, but section four says "You may not copy, modify, sublicense, >>> *or* >>> distribute the Program" (emphasis added). If it just concerned >>> distribution then there would be no room for interpretation. >> Still I don't see that as a distribution. The patch by itself is >> WORTHLESS it needs an executable, moreover - a RIGHT executable. > > It's not about distribution. The patched binary obviously doesn't > satisfy the terms of the GPL, so by my interpretation you no longer > have the license to use it. This renders the patch pointless.
I may have lost track of the argument here, but surely the GPL is all about distribution? Are you claiming it also restricts use? I don't see anything in the GPL faq that forbids modifying a GPL'ed program, provided it is not distributed. -- John Devereux _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
