-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Ewing wrote: > Jan Ciger wrote: >> GPL v.3. does not force anyone to release the compiler and >> development kit. It requires only the *installation information*, >> defined as: >> >> “Installation Information” for a User Product means any methods, >> procedures, authorization keys, or other information required to install >> and execute modified versions of a covered work in that User Product >> from a modified version of its Corresponding Source. > > Which, if they're using a compiler and other tools that are > so nonstandard, seems like it *would* require them to release > those tools, or at least enough information to enable someone > to build their own tools to do the same job -- since this is > "necessary information" to be able to build and run modified > versions.
The key is "to build and run" - GPL explicitly asks only for "install and execute", not to build. I mean, what is a "non-standard" compiler? The SDK is a perfectly standard tool for the platform. That it is not publicly available? And so what? Nobody forces you to make your tools available. Copyright doesn't cover such thing and it would be excessive - it would be similar like demanding that everything compiled by a GPL compiler must become GPL licensed itself, or in this case, just because you have compiled a GPL app, you need to GPL the compiler too. You would be extending the copyright over software that is not related in any way to the copyrighted work. That would be a really dangerous position to take and probably extremely difficult to uphold in court, but I am not a lawyer to judge that. > No, it's about them making use of your code without giving > something back. I understand that it's not about money. > Actually, neither - it is about maintaining the freedom. The tit-for-tat effect is just a side-effect, the same as making it rather tricky to sell a GPL-ed app commercially. But that is a philosophical debate, not really related to the problem. Jan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mandriva - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH1Ak0n11XseNj94gRAkVrAKC/eNM6Gyrp9WsV6Sekyp4juAB6YACfRRdr 1BT1HvFVWziu9jGhfaauIaE= =rhdP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Soya-user mailing list Soya-user@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/soya-user
