Re: gpl license definition of distributing

From: Grant Edwards (grante_at_visi.com)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: 23 Jul 2004 06:59:27 GMT

On 2004-07-23, Martin Hansen <mah@cccfsi.dk> wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Unless you are going to claim that people prefer to edit source
>> code while it's in eprom on your HW, distributing the sources
>> in eprom on your HW does not meet the terms of the GPL.

> Then you could, with the same argument, claim that a tape does
> not meet the terms. I don't think anyone edit sources while it
> is on tape.

After re-reading that section I belive I misinterpreded "form"
as implying a particular medium. I think that the "form"
refers to something like "unencrypted, unobsfucated ASCII
source files" -- regardless of medium. 

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