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proprietary relicensing & software freedom morality in revenue-generation

proprietary relicensing & software freedom morality in revenue-generation

Posted Jul 29, 2016 18:49 UTC (Fri) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: proprietary relicensing & software freedom morality in revenue-generation by pizza
Parent article: On the boundaries of GPL enforcement

I can't find that option in the GPLv3 - there's section 4 referring to verbatim copies of source code, but section 6, which discusses non-source forms, does not appear to have an exception for "as-received".


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proprietary relicensing & software freedom morality in revenue-generation

Posted Jul 29, 2016 19:32 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

The way I read 6(d), it sounds like it's okay to distribute unmodified binaries and point people to corresponding source at the upstream project, as long as you take responsibility for preventing dead links.


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