On 2/4/2010 4:01 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Hyman Rosen wrote:
[...]
It is false that permission to copy and distribute source
verbatim as part of a collection applies to a statically
linked executable.
Sez who?
The English language.
Please quote what you mean.
A statically linked executable contains binary versions
of libraries, modified by a linker program which changes
embedded values within the binaries in order to make them
refer to other portions of the whole executable. This is
therefore not a verbatim copy of the source of the code.
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