Re: Distributing sources partially

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> He is using a private lexical resource to produce C source code, and he
> use this source code in its own program. Unfortunatly, he doesn't have
> the right to distribute the lexical resources, but assumes he can
> distribute the generated C source code, as retro-conversion is impossible.
>
> First, it is possible to distribute such software under GPL, or any
> other free or open-source software, if some of those sources are
> actually machine-generated and can't be regenerated by the end user ?

GPL requires that all source code be in the form prefered for 
editing/modification.  So distributing the generated output won't work 
for GPL.  It will work for many other open source licenses though.

Bob
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