На Thu, 9 Nov 2006 21:55:58 +0100 Francesco Poli написа: > It's not a matter of finding an "ultimate" form. > It's a simple practical matter: if someone modifies a work in some > form (because he/she prefers to do so), but only distributes another > form (which is generated from the other one), then, well, it's *not* > Free Software. [...] > It depends on what you (as modifier of the work) prefer: if you retain > the form that you consider preferred, and keep it secret, then, well, > you are playing an unfair game that hurts the community. I agree with you > Please don't be afraid that agreeing on the "preferred form" > definition of source means that authors will always be asked to > distribute 160 Gbyte of raw uncompressed data! Practical > considerations can well shift the preferences toward more compressed > formats! I guess my concern was that people could just start requiring large and unedited images. But you're right - the requirement will adjust itself according to the needs of the community :) Just like it got with the software source. -- | Yasen Pramatarov | a.k.a. turin | home: http://yasen.lindeas.com | jabberID: xmpp:turin@jabber.org | http://projectoria.org - the philosophical team | http://lindeas.com - working on gnu/linux ideas
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