From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14885 invoked by alias); 9 May 2006 19:29:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 14875 invoked by uid 22791); 9 May 2006 19:29:43 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from romy.inter.net.il (HELO romy.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 09 May 2006 19:29:40 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-156-30.inter.net.il [80.230.156.30]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id EDN85782 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 9 May 2006 22:29:36 +0300 (IDT) Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 19:29:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20060509190346.GA12535@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Tue, 9 May 2006 15:03:46 -0400) Subject: Re: [rfa] License clarification for observer.texi Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20060508210440.GA18323@nevyn.them.org> <20060508221835.GA20262@nevyn.them.org> <20060509040545.GA26150@nevyn.them.org> <20060509190346.GA12535@nevyn.them.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-05/txt/msg00177.txt.bz2 > Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 15:03:46 -0400 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > Maybe this is "letter" rather than "spirit". Yes, it is. This text simply tries to define the meaning of ``source code'', so as to prevent a situation where what is distributed is incomplete and doesn't allow one to modify and rebuild. But there's nothing wrong, AFAIU, in distributing a derived file. We already do that, e.g., with Makefile.in that is produced from Makefile.am.