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You can't have it both ways.

You can't have it both ways.

Posted Sep 27, 2006 1:08 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: You can't have it both ways. by sepreece
Parent article: Some GPLv3 clarifications from the FSF

how is any downstream distributer (especially years later) supposed to know what the source for all the bits of code were so that they can strip out the bits of code that 'needed' that extra permissions to be there?

David Lang


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Simple...

Posted Sep 27, 2006 9:01 UTC (Wed) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

The GPL demands all changes to be logged.

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