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Weblog:   Is Linksys shirking the GPL? (Maybe not.)
Subject:   GCC Issues
Date:   2003-07-31 09:17:03
From:   anonymous2
Response to: GCC Issues

Read again, he said "not under obligation" not "have no right". They may not CARE what mods were made to the source.


I agree with a previous poster, changing the config file dirs is a simple matter of messin' with the Makefile. To prove they actually made changes to the source itself, you would have to prove that the binary does something different. Comparing MD5's with a known clean GPL copy (proabably) won't work either, as they used a modified compiler. You would have to prove that the program(s) in question do something in a basicly different way than a clean version of the sources with an unmodified compiler. Good luck with that, could take a LOT of testing.
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  • How I'd cheat
    2003-07-31 10:45:04  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

    First, I'd hack on GCC to accept a table of line numbers, file names, line text, and "foreign text files". Next when I invoke GCC to read a GPL'ed source file, When GCC sees a matching line number and text, it sees an implied #include, and fetches whatever mods I want to make but not publish. So this way, I've modified the GCC (which mods I may keep private), but have not touched the source. Distribute new binary, Profit!
    Sincerely (somewhat), phred.
    • How I'd cheat
      2003-07-31 22:02:33  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

      You still then would be releasing a modified binary. What does it matter how you modified it?
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