Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
Brian Frederick Kimball <bfk@footbag.org> writes:
> At 09:35 pm -0800 on November 29, 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
>
> > [...] the GPL requires that you give a copy of the GPL to anyone you
> > give the binary for a program to.
>
> Interestingly, this appears to only apply to some GPLed binaries, not
> all (see example below). And of course it is only necessary if you wish
> to have the rights granted in section 1, i.e. be able to distribute
> "verbatim copies of the Program's source code" (a right that Debian
> obviously needs).
No, you're confused. If you distribute binaries, you can only do so
under the terms of section 3. Section 3 says that the same
requirements for source code in sections 1 and 2 also apply to the
case of binaries, plus extra requirements for binaries.
Reply to: