Re: Module Licensing? (thinking a little more)

QuoteMstr - Danny Colascione
2001-11-10T18:09:46Z

On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 05:18:04PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 06:00:45PM +0100, Drizzt Do'Urden wrote:
> > Yes, clause 3.a) "machine readable source code". A .s file is, "machine
> > readable source code" by the assembler and by people that have enough time
> > to lost.. It is like head.S, but using numeric labels and other stuff of
> > that kind.
>
> Sigh.
>
> "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
> making modifications to it."

So someone who takes a GPLed Perl program and reimplements it in, say,
C can be sued by the Perl person (since he, presumably, prefers Perl)?

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