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Wayne wrote:
> If you made any change to any LVS code,
> you must post the change to public or anyone who
> ask you.
This has been beaten to death on /. It seems that many
people (including me) don't understand this.
You can modify GPL'ed code anyway you like without having to
release it. If you supply someone with the binary, you must
also give them the source code. Till the moment you release
the binary you have no obligation to show anyone your code.
In a book about RMS "Free as in Freedom" (recently
reviewed by Danny Yee on /. - I've read it and enjoyed it),
the author discusses RMS's original plan which was to force
everyone to release everything. For various reasons (including
that there was no place to put all this stuff), this option
was not used.
There is another point about releasing code, that you can charge
for it, but I don't understand this, if the code has to be
free as in beer.
Joe
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Joseph Mack PhD, Senior Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin
contractor to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center,
mailto:mack.joseph@xxxxxxx ph# 919-541-0007, RTP, NC, USA
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