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Before this gets out of hand...

Before this gets out of hand...

Posted Nov 19, 2003 20:36 UTC (Wed) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222)
In reply to: Before this gets out of hand... by guan
Parent article: Thomas Bushnell is no longer Hurd maintainer

And I become a developer how?

My reading of the GPL is that as soon as I modify a GPL'd product and then distribute my modified binary, I must also make the modifications available to the recipients. Thus, I become a developer just by making the binary available to others.

If I eat a meal, I'm a diner. As soon as I cook the meal, I'm a cook. That seems to be all it takes. Cooks have recipes, and Richard loves that metaphor. So there you have it.

How is the GFDL going to restrict me, as a user who made a change to the documented program, and wants to distribute my changes in documentation as well as source code?


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