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> > It also wouldn't work. Suppose you have one of these Slowaris boxes (no C
> > compiler), or you just buy a PC (no C compiler, no tar, no gzip, no make,
> > no *anything*...) how _do_ you get that box to run something more sensible?
>
> I know that there are zealots that may flame me for this, but source only
> distribution is not only impractcal, as noted above, but it would kill
> Linux's potential as a useful alternative to Winblows. Linux could never
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I agree but how is it possible in any case? Doesn't the GPL give the right
to distribute binaries? And all such rights passed on to *all derived
works*?
So if Linux 1.3.91 is GPL'd under today's GPL, doesn't the whole of it need
to be rewritten to go to a 'source only'? i.e. to not be a derived work,
and thus to not inherit those rights?
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