On 2/5/2010 3:32 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Converting ... same unmodified
The rights holder of a copyrighted work decides who may copy and distribute a work and how it may be done. By normal English usage, requiring that something be "unmodified" would mean keeping it in exactly the same form as received, precluding format conversions, while requiring that something be "verbatim" would mean that content be preserved unchanged while allowing format changes. None of these semantic distinctions apply to statically linked executable programs containing GPLed code, of course, since the GPL speaks only of verbatim copies of source code, and a statically linked executable is not a verbatim copy of source code by any definition of source code or verbatim. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
