Re: GPL scripts with a GPL-incompatible interpreter

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

Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> writes:

> You seem to be worrying about distributing GPL'd applications under
> section 3 of the GPL.  But that is only for "object code or executable
> form".  Debian is distributing it under section 2.  Furthermore, the
> thing that Debian distributes doesn't have any parts of anything else
> in it.  This is different from compiled C code, which has parts of the
> compiler, libc, and other libraries.  So Debian doesn't have to worry
> about compatibility.

Thank you Walter, this is exactly right in my opinion as well.