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Re: What makes software copyrightable anyway?



On 5/11/05, Humberto Massa <humberto.massa@almg.gov.br> wrote:
> Nope. Binaries are the same work as (the anthology of) their sources, in
> the eye of the Law 9609/98.

If I understand you correctly, this means that under Brazilian law, distribution
of binaries would satisfy a legal requirement that source be distributed.

If this is really the case, the GPL is just a more complex version of the BSD
license, under Brazilian law.

-- 
Raul



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