Factual wrong information in "Explaining BSD"

[Joseph Koshy]

On 10/22/06, Kristian Poul Herkild <kristian at herkild.dk> wrote:
> At this url:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/explaining-bsd/comparing-bsd-and-linux.html
> it is claimed (4.5) that the GPL does not allow binary-only
> distribution. It is factually wrong.

Section 4.5 has:

  "...any derivative work of a product released under the
   GPL must also be supplied with source code if
   requested."

I couldn't find any text that stated that binary-only
distributions are "disallowed" by the GPL.

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