Re: One unclear point in the Vim license

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:

> Eh?  I can't redistribute a binary even if I haven't modified it?

Yep, that's the GPL.  Of course, the person you give the binary to can
say "you don't need to give me the source", and then you're off the
hook.  

> Sure, *programmers* would far rather swap source code than binaries
> under most circumstances, but people shuttle binaries around by
> themselves all the time.  Sometimes just to see if something is broken.
> ("My /bin/ls doesn't work, can you send me yours?")
> 
> This practice is really forbidden by the GPL?

I think it's quite under the radar screen and not worth worrying
about.