13 Apr
2017
13 Apr
'17
11:10 a.m.
On 04/13/17 13:40, Josh Juran via Boost wrote:
Authors who license their own code under the GPL are not bound by the GPL with respect to that code. An author is allowed to offer anything under the terms of the GPL, including a program that links to a binary-only library...
That's not my reading of the GPL. According to Section 6 [1], everyone, including the author, must provide source code of the (derived) work as part of distribution, which is not possible if the work contains a binary-only component. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html