[Gllug] Hypothetical GPL question

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 9 Oct 2001, Paul Brazier wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>What the GPL discusses is the 'preferred form for making modifications
>>to the work'. For a C program, that's the C source not run through an
>>obfuscation process. For an assembler program, that's the assembler
>>source. If you do write in machine code, that's the _only_ form for
>>making modifications.
>That's interesting, presumably it means "preferred by the people who
>started the project".
>So say you use SSADM or something similar to aid your software creation
>process, does this mean you have to release all this under the GPL?

I'll say it again. The GPL is not designed to restrict the author;
it's a set of conditions the author can impose to grant others certain
freedoms. If you want to release a program that's useful to others who
want to modify and distribute it, of course you would release the
information necessary to modify it; if not, why are you trying to use
the GPL?

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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