On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:35:57AM -0800, Walter Landry wrote: > > My concern is not with bindings (most PHP *bindings* seem to be > > GPL-compatible), but with the interpreter itself; I don't see anything in > > the GPL that states unequivocally that distributing a GPL script together > > with a GPL-incompatible interpreter is acceptable. > You seem to be worrying about distributing GPL'd applications under > section 3 of the GPL. But that is only for "object code or executable > form". Debian is distributing it under section 2. Furthermore, the > thing that Debian distributes doesn't have any parts of anything else > in it. This is different from compiled C code, which has parts of the > compiler, libc, and other libraries. So Debian doesn't have to worry > about compatibility. So you believe that we only need to comply with section 2 of the GPL in order to distribute these scripts, even though the script is an "executable form" per se? If this is sufficient, that's fine with me; I just don't see how it's invalid to say that a script, being both source and executable, must comply with both sections 2 and 3, not just section 2. Certainly it's *easier* to be able to ignore section 3, it just seems arbitrary to me. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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