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From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: postscript preview
Message-ID: <1991Jun2.025712.1595@digi.lonestar.org>
Date: 2 Jun 91 02:57:12 GMT
References: <1991May31.155935.6043@cs.cmu.edu> <51e5d5ff.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu>
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In article <51e5d5ff.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu> rees@citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes:
>I would love to make a binary available to you, but the gnu license
>prohibits me from doing so.  You can get ghostscript from the usual ftp
>sites.  Mine is version 2.1.1 and I got it from wuarchive.wustl.edu .
>I'll be glad to send makefile diffs if you want.

You misunderstand the gnu license (GPL).  You can distribute binaries if you
wish.  Many ports of GNU software are distributed this way, especially MS-DOS
ports.  However, the license does say that you must make the source changes
you made to generate the distributed binary available to anyone who receives
the binary and would also like your changes to the source.

So, why don't you make the binary AND the makefile diffs available?  Nothing
in the GPL is there to prevent people from sharing changes they have made to
GNU Software.  However, the GPL does state that if you modify GNU software and
distribute binary executables containing those modifications, you MUST make 
those source modifications available to anyone who wishes to obtain them.
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