Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: > Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Section 3 requires that you distribute the source code for a work (or, >> in the non-DFSG-case, a written offer to provide the source code). >> "Source code" is defined to be the preferred form of the work for >> making modifications. For applications -- which is the case in >> question -- that preferred form does not include system header files, >> therefore the system header files are not part of the application's >> source code. > > You are not bothering to read section three which says, actually: > > "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for > making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source > code means all the source code modules it contains, plus any > associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to > control compilation and installation of the executable." > > Note carefully: "any associated interface definition files".
I will refer back to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, where I wrote that we will have to disagree on the meaning of that phrase. You say that it includes system header files; I think a reasonable interpretation is that it means interface definition files for the source code rather than for external libraries. I see no way to resolve the question until a court rules on it. Michael Poole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
