Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:56:13 +0000 | From | "Pedro Venda (SYSADM)" <> | Subject | Re: GPL Violation of 'sveasoft' with GPL Linux Kernel/Busybox + code |
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| This would be perfectly okay provided the source code to the older version | is identical to the source code in the newer version for all the works based | on works that are GPL'd. So long as you can draw a line between the old code | and the new code, then this is acceptable. However, if there are changes to | GPL'd source code files, then those changes need to be given to anyone who | receives binaries from those source code files. In that case, no line can be | drawn.
if that's the case, isn't it necessary to distribute the proprietary parts separately (or vice-versa)? else those proprietary parts would also be under the GPL.
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Pedro João Lopes Venda email: pjvenda@rnl.ist.utl.pt http://maxwell.rnl.ist.utl.pt
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