Robert Collins wrote:
On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 16:00, Felix Sheldon wrote:True, but I meant the '*always*' to be in relation to whether you have done this or that with the code. If doing something with the code means you cannot provide the source, then you cannot distribute the GPL code. It's not the GPL stopping you, it's your inability to provide the source.
There are many ways to use code, at runtime, linking, directly copying in full or just taking bits of it. I think the Free software licenses are not so much about what you can and can't do, just that you must *always* provide source to anyone else who will 'use' (by normal execution) a work incorporating it.
Erm, thats not the definition of the GPL or LGPL. The GPL's key thing is
that you must always make the the source *available should it be
wanted*. (This is quite different).
Whether they want it or not you still have to provide (make available) the source.
Felix
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