On Jul 19, 2008, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Your meaning of object code is binary code? The GPL defines it anything that's not source code, i.e., that's not the preferred form for making modifications ot the software. > and the modifications is the source code? Modifications are made to the source code, yes. > If I understand your point, they released versions of Linux only as > binary, but without providing the sources(source code) for their > modifications. Without providing corresponding source code, or offering to provide it, yes. Whether they modify it or not is irrelevant. > You can do whatever you want with the code, just not release it to > anyone and if you do, you have to provide the source code? > Is that correct? This pretty much sums up GPLv2. GPLv3 is has further requirements in some details, and is more lax in others. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
