Re: [LAD] Impro-Visor created on sourceforge

On Friday 07 August 2009 06:51:08 Paul Davis wrote: wrote: That's nice, but I would like for someone to show me how this pertains to the current line of discussion. The fact is that code does become GPL once you mix it with other GPL code. Whether you choose to break the promise you are making when you distribute it is another thing. That promise is something that is made with the license automatically whenever the application is distributed, just one thing a license can do that a contract would need a bilateral agreement for. Perhaps you should read that paragraph again in the context of how this whole discussion came about. Known free software, with a history of being free, distributed under the GPL with the source code in the past, was not being distributed with the source code at a point by the very same people. So where would the altered terms be if the binary was decompiled and source distributed for the application under consideration? The terms would be the same as they were in the past. Thus, there is nothing stopping the distribution of the code regardless of how it is obtained in this one particular case. It can be forced open in this case because it would result in code that was intended to be under the GPL in the first place, not some other license. There is a whole trail of evidence that can easily show it was and is GPL. The code could hardly be considered proprietary. An extensive look at license vs. contract for the GPL is found in Enforcing the GPL - http://www.sapnakumar.org/EnfGPL.pdf Raymond