On Tuesday, Aug 5, 2003, at 17:06 US/Eastern, Glenn Maynard wrote:
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:59:13PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:Otherwise, it'd be easy to get around the GPL by preferring to use ahex editor to change strings in an executable --- saves compiling time,after all.I think that's fine--if it's *really* your preferred form for making real, practical changes to a program. [...] then that's sufficient. The binary is your source.
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If Microsoft Word is my preferred means of making changes, and a Word document is my preferred form for modification, then a free license should not prevent me from using them.
I happen to agree with you, but for different reasons. In both cases, it is fairly easy to argue that those forms are globally preferred, because they are the only forms. I'd prefer not to rehash the recent thread(s), though.