Re: gdb and the GPL

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From: Mike Richardson
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1992 21:38

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In article <13008@xenna.Xylogics.COM> carlson@steam.Xylogics.COM (James Carlson) writes:
>We absolutely cannot distribute the sources to our modifications -- or
>even the resulting object code -- to any requestors from the general
>public because it would represent a security and an internal copyright
>problem.  On the other hand, we may need to be able to distribute the
>objects to subsidiaries or even OEMs, if necessary.

  Although I somewhat feel that this violates the spirit of the GPL,
my understanding is that you must agree to distribute the source
to your a program *if* you gave/sold them the binary. It doesn't 
say that you must give/sell the binary to anyone.
  So if you can live with distributing source to OEMs, then you
may be okay. I could be wrong about this though.

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