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cdrtools - a tale of two licensescdrtools - a tale of two licensesPosted Aug 14, 2006 17:24 UTC (Mon) by AJWM (guest, #15888)In reply to: cdrtools - a tale of two licenses by k8to Parent article: cdrtools - a tale of two licenses
>The GPL requires that the necessary scripts used to build the work be made available under the same terms as the source
That only applies if "the work" is an executable. As an above poster pointed out, if you're just distributing a bunch of C source files, there are no scripts involved -- the work is what it is. As soon as somebody compiles that and distributes the binary, _then_ they have to pass on the source and build scripts too.
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Debian's role Posted Aug 14, 2006 19:53 UTC (Mon) by dark (subscriber, #8483) [Link] Debian is in the "then" position -- it compiles binary packages and ships them, along with the source. If it can't do that in accordance with the terms of the license, then that package won't go into Debian.
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