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Article #43Re: RedHat CEO says home users shouldn't use Linux
From: Kingbarry2000
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 23:30
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 23:30
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"Jeffrey Silverman" <jeffrey@jhu.edu> wrote in message news:pan.2003.11.05.22.14.37.777739@jhu.edu... > On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 20:48:14 +0000, Kingbarry2000 wrote: > > > Could you expand on this? Like, say, with some > >> explanation of *why* he's wrong? > >> > >> thanks > >> > > > > > > Binaries are "owned" by the producer and may not be copied, etc. without > > permission. > > If the consumer wants it, the source must be produced. > > > Thanks. That is the position I have been taking. In all this banter, I > actually did go and read both the GPL and the GPL FAQ > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html > > They are neither truly difficult to read nor lengthy (compared to some > commercial licenses!) but neither explicitly says what you postulate: that > binaries created from GPL'ed source are owned by the creator of those > binaries. > > Questions: > 1) Where does it say such a thing? > 2) Is a binary a "derivative work"? (If yes, then maybe binaries *are* > GPL'ed. I don't know). If you just use existing GPL source code and compile it, you do not 'own' those binaries. Those binaries are free to the world and you cannot charge for them. If, however, you use some GPL code, add some of your own code, compile it, then you "own" the binaries and can charge fot it. But, you must give away / publish all of the source code - including your own source code. ie - others can go to the trouble of compiling it and give it away for free / whatever. -- Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
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