On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 19:45, Bill Anderson wrote: > > <the whirring sound of a can opener is heard> > If the binary is GPL, really I don't see how you stop that from being > redistributed either. That is an additional encumbrance not compatible > with the GPL. > Join the group of people who have asked the FSF opinion on this, doing anything else is just wasting electrons.. The only legal reading I have heard of it (not from RH) was that the GPL only really covers that a binary given will be given source code. It doesnt say that a person cant put addition restrictions on the binary.. only that it cant put restrictions on the distribution of the source code. -- Stephen John Smoogen smoogen@xxxxxxxx Los Alamos National Lab CCN-5 Sched 5/40 PH: 4-0645 Ta-03 SM-1498 MailStop B255 DP 10S Los Alamos, NM 87545 -- So shines a good deed in a weary world. = Willy Wonka --
