Re: generated source files, GPL and DFSG

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Andreas Barth:

>> > I'm arguing with your interpretation of "program" to mean anything you
>> > want - in this case potentially any random string of bytes.
>  
>> Why do you think this would change anything?  Isn't this the
>> assumption under which debian-legal operates in general?
>
> Actually, it is not the assumption under which the DFSG operates in
> general.

Quite deliberately, I wrote "debian-legal", not "DFSG". 8-)

I don't know much about DFSG interpretation by the people who actually
decide what's DFSG-compliant and what's not.  Maybe their view is
suffficently distinct, but the archive doesn't show it, IMHO.