On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:10:00PM -0500, Walter Landry wrote: > > > uncertain about whether you should disable the automatic generation of > > > .elc files. > > > > Why ? We clearly are not violating the GPL by doing so, so where is the > > problem. > > If Debian sets up everything so that the user automatically makes the > link in the postinst, a judge might see that as legally equivalent to > distributing the compiled form. Especially since Debian distributes > Emacs as well. It gets rather murky, and starts getting into what > people's intent is. It might be fine, but I am uncertain. Hoop jumping to evade the intent of licenses doesn't work unless you have expensive lawyers. Which we don't. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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