On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 10:29:37AM +0100, David Kuehling wrote: > > The process: I make an image of the sources using 'cross'. I put the > > image (with no source) on a CD along with Gforth binaries and a GPL > > copyright text. I sell the CD at price X. > > This could work under the "boundle" software shipping interpretation of > the GPL.
As the FSF sees it, this does not satisfy the "mere aggregation" paragraph of the GPL. After all, the image is made to work with the engine. > Are you sure you don't want to just put your software in source code > form onto the CD, and run it from source code? Forth code without > comments will be sufficiently obfuscated anyways :) Note that, if the Forth source code is Gforth-specific, that's not a mere aggregation, either, so the "source code" would have to be distributed under the GPL; and if the real source code contains comments, it would have to be provided, too. The planned exception is to allow distribution of Gforth-specific source code under any license. - anton
