Re: PHPNuke license
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 16:28, bts@alum.mit.edu wrote:
> David Turner <novalis@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 18:34, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > > Scripsit David Turner <novalis@novalis.org>
> > > > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 17:16, Henning Makholm wrote:
>
> > > > FooWebProg is Copyright 2003, <a href="/2c.html">Freddy Bloggs and
> > > > others</a>. There's no warranty. You can redistribute the program under
> > > > the terms of <a href="/gpl.html">the GNU GPL version 2</a>.
> > >
> > > But he only can if he has it. Does this mean that the proprietor of
> > > the website must offer the server-side parts of the software for
> > > download, too? (Because the client-side scripts in the page that is
> > > served may be compiled from bits and pieces that are separate on the
> > > serverside, such that the page served is not the preferred form for
> > > making modifications to the scripts).
> >
> > Web pages are also not object or executable forms, and therefore not
> > covered by section 3.
>
> They are an object form. The page transmitted by PHP-nuke is not the
> preferred form for modification (which has the PHP code embedded
> within it), and so not source. It is produced by mechanical
> transformation fromt he source, and so quite reasonably an object
> page.
Apparently, there are more things in the world than object form and
source code. *resubmits one of his patches to the GPL*
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