On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:04:36 +0200, clipka wrote:

> What if I'm not distributing anything I fixed? What if I only distribute
> /the fix/?

You mean like distributing a patch?  Sure, since the code that's being 
patched is available, it's all the same.

> What if all I do is sit at a terminal on that company's premises,
> hacking at the keyboard to remove some code from the original source and
> add some other instead?

You have to make the source available to at least the people you 
distribute it to.

> Technically, if it does constitute any distribution of code at all, then
> I'd say what I distribute is purely my own work, containing no part of
> the stuff I'm patching.
> 
> (Note that I'm not talking about what the company then does with that
> code; I'm assuming for now that they're using the software in-house.)

See above. :-)

Jim

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