Re: Binaries under GPL(2) (was: Re: Bug#221709: ITP: at76c503a-source -- at76c503a driver source)

[Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>]

Scripsit Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Henning Makholm wrote:

> > I think Alexander's point may have merit. If you distribute whatever
> > precise bits it was that the copyright holder waved a copy of the GPL
> > over, those bits must be assumed to be "the Program", and as such GPL
> > #2 gives you right to distribute a modified version of the bits.

> At least, the way I read the GPL, 2 gives you the right to distribute
> a modified version of the Program Source (which is what 1 covers).

Are we reading different versions of the license? The one I'm looking
at (/usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/COPYING from woody's emacs20 package)
does not mention the word "source" in its section 2 at all.

#1 explicitly applies only to "the Program's source code", but #2
speaks generally about "the Program", source code or not.

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