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On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 05:58 PM, Wayne wrote:
Mr. Baker,
Freedom to access the source code is the basic of the
GPL license. That freedom is for everyone.
As someone said before, the GPL is a form of contract. The freedoms
granted by the GPL are only granted to those with whom you enter the
contract with, the people you distribute binaries to. No one else.
You can write
your own code on top of GPLed code, as long as you
did not modify the GPLed code, your own code does
not need to be opened.
Wrong yet again. Creating a binary that somehow incorporates or is
linked with object code produced by GPLd source code puts the entire
resulting binary under the GPL (why microsoft calls the GPL viral).
Therefore if you distribute these new binaries, you are also required to
provide the full source code upon request.
I think any further discussion about this should be taken off of this
mailing list.
--Paul Baker
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