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Re:BMW Australia Refusing to Comply with Terms of GNU Public... by ArbitraryHobo on Thursday March 03, 2016 @12:26PM (#11218325)
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html

> object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:

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Re:BMW Australia Refusing to Comply with Terms of GNU Public... by bcook on Thursday March 03, 2016 @01:07PM (#11218638)
If someone modifies GPL source-code and published the executable, they must publish the additional source-code.

Your quoted section only speaks of unmodified machine-code created from GPLed source-code.

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