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Re: configure.ac, Makefile.am question
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Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: |
Re: configure.ac, Makefile.am question |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:35:21 -0500 (CDT) |
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Thomas Dickey wrote:
If it's _his_ source code (and assuming that _he_ licensed it GPL), he can
distribute whatever set of files he chooses. The restriction applies for
files that he gets from someone else.
If no one else is allowed to distribute the package, then what's the
point of applying GPL at all? I am not so sure that your claim is
true since if the original package does not meet the requirements of
GPL, then the package can't be properly licensed via GPL. A pig is
still a pig regardless of how you paint it.
I find the practice of stripping these files to be particularly
abhorrent so I would not be able to offer any technical support for
such an activity.
OS distribution package maintainers are likely to reject the software
package as being a candidate for distribution since their hands are
tied if anything is wrong.
Bob
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