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Re: The draft Position statement on the GFDL



> > Because it incorporates functionality implemented in proprietary
> > code.

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:41:32PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
> It cannot do that if it is distributed with source and under the terms
> of the GPL.

That's what I've been saying.

> I still don't know what you are getting at.

That there are [hypothetical] cases where you can't distribute with the
all the sources, let alone sources licensed under the terms of the GPL.

This can happen when there is proprietary functionality which you cannot
legally reverse engineer.

-- 
Raul



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