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Re: Hyman's retarded theory of MODIFIED work and its impact on spreading
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Hyman Rosen |
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Re: Hyman's retarded theory of MODIFIED work and its impact on spreadingGNU philosophy |
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Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:38:53 -0500 |
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On 2/5/2010 3:32 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Converting ... same unmodified
The rights holder of a copyrighted work decides who
may copy and distribute a work and how it may be done.
By normal English usage, requiring that something be
"unmodified" would mean keeping it in exactly the same
form as received, precluding format conversions, while
requiring that something be "verbatim" would mean that
content be preserved unchanged while allowing format
changes.
None of these semantic distinctions apply to statically
linked executable programs containing GPLed code, of
course, since the GPL speaks only of verbatim copies of
source code, and a statically linked executable is not a
verbatim copy of source code by any definition of source
code or verbatim.