On Thu Mar 05 17:23, Russell Coker wrote: > PS What contributions are you making to any free software projects? Please > note that trolling this mailing list doesn't count as a contribution. I think you're being a little harsh Russell, but you're right Bell, I don't think anyone anywhere disagrees that the copyright on program source also applies to the binary form of the program, or to other forms it may be converted into. Otherwise I would be able to pirate Microsoft office without it being illegal. After all, I'm not copying the source. Ditto with other forms of non-text works, I don't think any judge in the world would consider the mp3 of the latest hits any less copyrighted than the original and that's even a lossy transformation. It therefore follows that any binary inherits the copyright of all the source components which went to create it, otherwise I could clearly steal anyone's work merely by adding enough useless code to it. Hence we reach the same conclusion that Debian did some time ago. matt -- Matthew Johnson
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