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Re: generated source files, GPL and DFSG



On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> So if I write C with comments and then remove them that's not DFSG
> free, but if I fail to add them in the first place then it's fine
> for main?

I've no idea if it's fine for main,[1] but it's clearly DFSG Free.

Whether a work is DFSG Free is a separate question from whether we
should actually distribute a work.


Don Armstrong

1: I'd question a maintainer's sanity if they said they were capable
of maintaining such a thing.
-- 
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very
easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over
expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without
discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the
syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors
are an abundant source of gain.
 -- Anatole France

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