On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Judd Storrs <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:04 PM, John W. Eaton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Does the FAQ answer specifically say that you are not allowed to >> distribute them together? > > GPLv2 section 3 does: > > "However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not > include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary > form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the > operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself > accompanies the executable." > > The question is whether being part of the same installer counts as > "accompanies the executable". GPLv3 may be more lenient. The best I could > find as equivalent is at the end of section 6: > > "A separable portion of the object code, whose source code is excluded > from the Corresponding Source as a System Library, need not be > included in conveying the object code work." > > It seems to me that the GPLv3's "need not" is much more permissive than the > GPLv2's ban on co-distribution.
Just for the record, looking at the answer here http://www.ginac.de/pipermail/cln-list/2009-April/000513.html this guy won't stop at GiNaC/CLN. And he claims this is still valid for GPLv3. Michael. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
