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Re: GPL source vs. binary



On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Darren O. Benham wrote:

> Does a source that's licensed under the GPL automaticly produce a binary
> that can only be licensed under the GPL?

If you are the author of the program, you can distribute the binary and
the source under separate, even incompatible, licenses.  You could
distribute the binary under a conventional license and the source under
the GPL.  This may of course reduce the demand for the binary.  Third
parties using GPL'd source must distribute any binaries produced from
compiling it under the GPL (which means they must distribute the source
too).


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