Big development in the GUI realm

[Damjan]

> The problem with this is what I've called the "patch hole" in another
> context [1]. The problem with this definition is that I can *always*
> distribute GPL'ed parts separately and re-combine them arbitrarily upon
> execution, and it's not even particularly hard. Write your code with the
> GPL'ed code embedded. At the end, before you distribute, extract it and
> record the extraction so your program can "rewind it"; you're left with
> nothing in your code that is GPLed. Later, the user will go get the GPL
> software, and you software "rewinds" the extraction process, and the user
> is left with something that is byte-for-byte identical to what you weren't
> allowed to distribute by the GPL.... so what good was the GPL?

What you described is not ok according to the GPL - since you distributed a
binary thats derived from GPL software (and you didn't publish it source
code under the GPL too).

> Nobody really knows what the GPL means when it gets down to it; 

If you don't know, you should ask the person whose GPL code you are using.

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damjan