<Somewhat late in this...> On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 14:03, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Tuesday, Aug 5, 2003, at 18:39 US/Eastern, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > > If I hack the hell out of some yacc/lex output and put that in my > > program, the yacc/lex files aren't the source anymore, the C code is. > > Same deal with hacking a binary directly. > > I agree with you. I'm just saying there is a difference between > "hack[ing] the hell out of" something and a trivial change. > > If I changed the yacc output by doing a simple find/replace on a > variable name, and tried to call that output "source", I hope you'd > call that crazy. I would indeed. I don't think that establishes a preferred form of modification at all, especially since it's not you, but the text editor, doing the modifying. But even in the case you did it manually, I don't think that's enough to establish preference. The DFSG, and even the GPL, are in the end interpreted by people. For the majority of cases (actually, any reasonable one that I can think of), it's easy to see whether someone is trying to weasel around the definition of "preferred" or not. -- Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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