[ILUG] GPLv3 last days for comment, and other news links

[Ciaran O'Riordan]

"Frank Duignan" <frank.duignan at gmail.com> writes:
> If you take a compiler output and convert
> it to an ascii header file to be included as a blob "source code" in a
> strictly legal sense?

The definitions of source code in GPLv2 and v3 are pretty similar:

 "The 'source code' for a work means the preferred form of the work for
  making modifications to it."

So compiler output would not suffice, except in the maybe impossible case
where some byte code is generated once and afterward is genuinely maintained
by humans - this would probably require that the byte code be documented, or
maybe this is an impossible corner case.


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