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> "When Deere does reply (we have heard from others that their legitimate requests for source code have been met with silence), they have always failed to include the 'scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable,' per GPLv2," Gingerich told The Register.

source code modifications are required to be provided, build tools which are not modified from GPL source are not. is this really what someone is going to sue over?




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