Compiling with gdc vs. gdmd

[Leandro Lucarella]

Joseph Rushton Wakeling, el  5 de abril a las 17:42 me escribiste:
> On 05/04/12 13:16, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> >Joseph Rushton Wakeling, el  4 de abril a las 15:43 me escribiste:
> >>To see why it matters, imagine a corporate entity releasing a large,
> >>complex piece of software where the code was under a free licence
> >>but the build system was proprietary and internal to the company.
> >>It'd be a major block to practically enjoying the licence freedoms.
> >
> >This is new to GPLv3 right? Because several companies are already doing
> >this, specially companies selling small devices with Linux, usually they
> 
> No, it's also in GPLv2, but in Section 3, with slightly different language:
> 
>   The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making
>   modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all
>   the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface
>   definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and
>   installation of the executable.
> 
> [... see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html ...]

Mmm, I wonder if Edimax and WesternDigital are violating the GPL then...
Maybe they provide some convoluted script or way to build it but as far
as I recall it wasn't easy at all to use the source code they provide.

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