Re: XFree86 license difficulties
Scripsit Ken Arromdee <arromdee@rahul.net>
> On 3 Feb 2004, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > No I'm not. I can perfectly well give away a staically linked binary
> > without also giving a copy of the libc.a file is linked with. The fact
> > that *parts* of the library go into the binary cannot be used to
> > recover a libc.a that the recipient of my binary can use to recompile
> > from scratch. Those parts are not even easily identifyable in the binary.
> So it doesn't count as distributing the component unless you distribute the
> entire unaltered file?
Not for the purpose of "unless that component accompanies the executable".
> That seems like a strange interpretation,
No, it is the only non-strange interpretation. As you point out
yourself, your interpretation makes the entire exception meaningless.
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Henning Makholm "De kan rejse hid og did i verden nok så flot
Og er helt fortrolig med alverdens militær"
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