Re: Meaning of `source code'
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>
> > So, if I write a program which needs a non-free compiler to be
> > built, that program _cannot be free_ according to the GPL. But do we
> > consider it free?
>
> No, we do not. We're even stricter - you have to be able to built it
> using packages in the Debian main distribution.
Well, then I think we have a big problem here. We'll have to
move to `contrib' one of the packages installed in the bootdisks:
`syslinux'.
The author (H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>) has licensed it as
GPL, but it needs Turbo Assembler to be built from the sources.
I tried to convert it to use `as86', but it's not easy.
--
Juan Cespedes
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