From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
Cc: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: sources and scripts for generated files
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 23:06:24 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r43g8win.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <538326F8.7020706@online.de>
Andreas Röhler writes:
> > But this part is not hard to understand.
> >
> > (1) You must provide sources that are reasonably convenient to edit.
> > (2) Which do you think is more editable? Ship it.
> Preferences might change and be close to tastes. Should really all
> the ephemeric helper-functions used in the edit-process need to be
> included?
Eh?
> Always understood GPL legal term "source" in sense of
> required-to-build-the-binary. I.e. in sense of "Corresponding
> Source", where it's said:
Before the definition of "Corresponding Source", the gods have chosen
to place the definition of "Source".[1] See line one of the section
you quoted. Application of that definition is what everybody else in
this thread is concerned with.
Footnotes:
[1] With apologies to Grandmaster Lasker, I believe it was, as well
as any atheists who may be listening in.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-26 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-26 2:31 sources and scripts for generated files Glenn Morris
2014-05-26 5:33 ` Jan Djärv
2014-05-26 8:32 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-05-26 9:10 ` Jan D.
2014-05-26 9:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-05-26 9:43 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-26 11:35 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-05-26 14:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2014-05-26 15:56 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-26 18:02 ` Stefan Monnier
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