Re: Defining 'preferred form for making modifications'

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

"Joe Moore" <joemoore@iegrec.org> writes:

> Thomas Bushnell, BSG said:
> > It seems to me that if you are right, then there is no way to enforce
> > the GPL: because then someone could simply modify the object file in
> > some interesting and useful way (say, to change a string constant,
> > usually pretty easy), and then claim that the C code isn't source at
> > all, and thus need not be distributed.
> >
> > I submit that this is therefore clearly *not* the correct
> > interpretation, and that in such a case, the original C code is still
> > an essential part of the source, even though it no longer can be
> > automatically transformed into the binaries that you are distributing.
> 
> Modifying in an interesting and useful way like running "strip" on the
> binary?
> I don't think the GPL can be subverted so easily:

Say, to change a string constant, usually pretty easy.  I wish I had
said that the first time around.

Thomas