Re: GPL source vs. binary
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 03:10:04PM -0800, Darren O. Benham wrote: Does a source that's licensed under the GPL automaticly produce a binary that can only be licensed under the GPL? Yes. Unless you're the Copyright holder, in which case (as you'd expect) all bets are off and you can do whatever you want with it. -- - Joseph Carter GnuPG public key: 1024D/DCF9DAB3, 2048g/3F9C2A43 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 -- * bma wonders if this will make the Knghtbrd .sig pgpylwjCM805b.pgp Description: PGP signature
GPL source vs. binary
Does a source that's licensed under the GPL automaticly produce a binary that can only be licensed under the GPL? -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. = * http://benham.net/index.html[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * ---* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] * = pgpSsCiwCBaXj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: GPL source vs. binary
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999, Darren O. Benham wrote: Does a source that's licensed under the GPL automaticly produce a binary that can only be licensed under the GPL? Since a compilation is a translation into machine language, then the resulting binary can be considered a derivative of the Program, according to the GPL's section 0 (if I didn't miss anything there - IANAL). Thus I think it can only be licensed under the GPL, unless of course the author decides to release it under another license as well. Sam. -- Samuel Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.via.ecp.fr/~sam/ echo what is the universe|tr a-z 0-7-0-729|sed 's/9.//g;s/-/+/'|bc
Re: GPL source vs. binary
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Darren O. Benham wrote: Does a source that's licensed under the GPL automaticly produce a binary that can only be licensed under the GPL? If you are the author of the program, you can distribute the binary and the source under separate, even incompatible, licenses. You could distribute the binary under a conventional license and the source under the GPL. This may of course reduce the demand for the binary. Third parties using GPL'd source must distribute any binaries produced from compiling it under the GPL (which means they must distribute the source too).
