Re: Free Art License

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

Ingo Ruhnke wrote:
> I don't think so, undocumented source there is still a good chance to
> make modification, sure it might be more difficult, but I still have
> everything that I need to produce the binary. With the image however I
> only have the 'binary',  I don't have any 'source' information that
> would allow me to modify the resulting work in any meaningfull way. I
> consider this more similar to somebody who is writing a programm in C,
> then compiling it and then losing the source code (diskcrash, rm,
> whatever). To my understanding the resulting binary is undistributable
> under the GPL.
My understanding is that it is; there are some cases where people really do
hack up binaries in hex editors routinely.  Although probably someone would
disassemble it, and then *that* would be the preferred form for
modification.

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