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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.




  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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