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SubjectRe: New sound maintainer?
On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Hmm, I can get the source, I can compile binnaries, I can use it as
> > anything I like (tho a sound driver is the best option), I can freely
> > give anyone the source, but not anything derived from that source (a
> > binnary is a derived thing). The only thing it forbays is me
>
> You cannot give the binary to other people. The GPL allows you to give
> the binary to other people. Therefore this is an additional restriction in
> his new license. His old one is non GPL but _freer_ than GPL so not an issue
> as the GPL allows freer than GPL'd code to be mixed with it.
>
Ok, ok, it's excluded, I'll shutup now. (although I still think that a
if a tougher version of the GPL was needed, it would have source only
clauses in, but that's just my view).

> Alan
>
Bryn
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