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:

> > #1 explicitly applies only to "the Program's source code", but #2
> > speaks generally about "the Program", source code or not.
> 
> Sure, but the only type of distribution allowed under #2 is
> distribution under #1 (You may modify your copy or copies of the
> Program [...] and copy and distribute such modifications or work under
> the terms of Section 1 above) which is distribution of "the Program's
> source code,"

The reference to #1 obviously targets only the part after "provided
that". There is a completely similar reference from #3, and #3
unambigously does not speak about source.

> [We come right back to the question of whether or not the binary is
> source.

No. The binary in question is clearly not source.

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Henning Makholm                            "What a hideous colour khaki is."