gnupg windows installer

[John A. Martin]

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>>>>> "R" == Rich 
>>>>> "Re: gnupg windows installer"
>>>>>  Sat, 06 Jan 2001 00:31:35 -0500


    R> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:50:22 +0100 or Thereabouts The voices in
    R> my head told me that Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> said:

    >> > hm, are you saying that Software written in a language where
    >> > no Free Software compiler exists can not be Free Software?
    >>
    >> Yes.  From the GPL:
    >>
    >> | control compilation and installation of the executable.
    >> | However, as a special exception, the source code distributed
    >> | need not include anything that is normally distributed (in
    >> | either source or binary form) with the major components
    >> | (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on
    >> | which the executable runs, unless that component itself
    >> | accompanies the executable.

    R>   I'm not certain that I understand the above snippet of text
    R> without further context, but I asked Richard M. Stallman and
    R> some Slashdot people this question:

What context?  That is from Section 3 of the GPL.

    R>   "In one of the mailing lists to which I subscribe, someone
    R>   today suggested that generating binaries with non-free
    R>   compilers, and releasing them under the GPL, (with source
    R>   code of course) violates the GPL."

As Werner Koch suggested in another mail, the issue is whether the
Delph compiler is normally distributed with the major components of
the Windows Operating System under the meaning of the special
exception granted under Section 3 of the GPL.

    R>   Richard M. Stallman said this:

    R>   "That is not so.  The GPL does not require the compiler to be
    R> free."

    R>   And one of the Slashdot editors said:

    R>  "Nope. You've misinterpreted the GPL. ANY compiler can be used
    R> to create GPL'd code with no complications whatsoever. There
    R> are plenty of Open Source, Freeware, and Shareware out there in
    R> the Windows and Mac world to corroborate this fact."
 
    R>  Anyway... for what it's worth.

	jam

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