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Re: The legality of cdrecord



On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:05:05PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:
> > I believe the above interpretation is mistaken.  See the recent
> > <http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html>.  It
> > says, regarding both GPL version 2 and version 3:
> >
> >   Both versions of the GPL require you to provide all the source
> >   necessary to build the software, including supporting libraries,
> >   compilation scripts, and so on.
> 
> Thank you for proving that I am 100% correct!
> 
> The GPL does require you to provide everything that is needed but it does
> _not_ require to put more than "the work" under GPL.

I can't imagine how you came to this conclusion, as the quoted section states
quite the opposite - you need to include the compilation scripts, whether or
not you consider them to be part of "the work".

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Benjamin A'Lee :: benjamin.alee@subvert.org.uk
Subvert Technologies :: http://subvert.org.uk/

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