Re: Defining 'preferred form for making modifications'
Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org> writes:
> On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 13:29 US/Eastern, Thomas Bushnell, BSG
> wrote:
>
> > Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org> writes:
> >
> >> I don't think an interpretation of the GPL that says "I wrote this
> >> code in C. Forever is C must it stay!" is correct.
> >
> > Right. All I'm saying is you must distribute the C code; I don't care
> > whether you continue to make changes in that language.
>
> Why would C stay the preferred form for modifying a work for eternity,
> even when the current work bares hardly a resemblence to its C
> original?
It is *PART* of the source. Not the whole source, but part of it.
> So, essentially, you're saying that for either images or translations
> to other programming languages, the GPL is a original source + patches
> license? Does this apply to human-language translations as well? What
> about changes to C code in C?
No, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that editing a
binary cannot remove your obligation to distribute the C source which
produced that binary, even if you do a bunch of significant extensive
edits, even if you threw away the C source.
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