Hi! On Fri Aug 29, 2003 at 09:45:01PM +0200, Henning Moll wrote: > So, the big question is: What does distribute mean? For example: > > A system administrator writes a little handy perl script using some > gpl'd perl libraries (as mentioned in the gpl-faq, this is linking, > and therefore, the new tool can only be distributed under the gpl...). > But the adiminstrator doesn't intend to distribute, he only install it > on a machine used by many clients/users. > > One day, a nosy client find the tool useful and send it out to the > internet... > > Hmmm, what now? Maybe this[1] can help. So long Thomas 1. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCInternalDistribution -- .''`. Obviously we do not want to leave zombies around. - W. R. Stevens : :' : Thomas Krennwallner <djmaecki at ull dot at> `. `'` 1024D/67A1DA7B 9484 D99D 2E1E 4E02 5446 DAD9 FF58 4E59 67A1 DA7B `- http://bigfish.ull.at/~djmaecki/
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