On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 23:36, Mike McCarty wrote: > One interesting thing I just noticed for the first time (or perhaps > noticed again after a few years, and didn't remember). It states that > section 6 states the terms for "distribution of such executables". So > one might argue that if one links such an executable on his own machine > by linking it at load time, but does not distribute it, then 6 has no > force, since it is not distributed. There has never been any question that you can 'use' GPL'd works that you have modified yourself even if the modification involves adding non-GPL'd components. > In any case, no corporation is going to use anything which is GPL or > LGPL and risk being taken to court. They do use it, they just can't distribute it - not even if they want to give it away. Which means that the rest of us won't ever have it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
