Re: Licensing, was elvis package

[<aqy6633@acf5.nyu.edu>(Alex Yukhimets)]

> Please quote the relevant section.

With pleasure :)

> Meanwhile, here's an extract from the GPL that might interest you: 
> 
>    These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If
>    identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
>    and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
>    themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
>    sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you
>    distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
>    on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms
>    of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
>    entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote
>    it.

The quote above is at the end of section 2 of GPL and applies only to section
2, while the following is a quote from section 3:

  3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
  under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
  Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
                                           ^^^^
      a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
          source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
	      1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software
	      interchange; 

and followed by

 The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
 making modifications to it.  For an executable work, complete source
 code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
                                        ^^^^^^^
 associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
 control compilation and installation of the executable.  However, as a
 special exception, the source code distributed need not include
 anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
 form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
 operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
 itself accompanies the executable.

Thanks.

Alex Y.
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