Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:08:30 +0200 | | From | Helge Hafting <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregistertable |
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Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for > ^^^^^^^^^ > Preferred by whom? The FSF? Richard Stallman? Hackers in general when > they take a vote? Programmers in general? What if the market is full of > VB programmers who prefer VB? What if none of them know assembly? They > might all vote that assembly isn't a preferred form. If they aren't the > ones who count, then who does? Maybe the authors count for more than > other people? If so then it does seem they might like to write binaries > because they're crazy and they think it's fun or something. I think that > the intention of the GPL is clear here but the language is not...
The intention _is_ clear indeed. That ought to be all we need really. If it comes to the worst and somneone in court claims that binary is their preferred form for _modification_ - have them demonstrate their way of working to prove it can be done. "Now write 'hello world' in binary. Wow, you managed that! Now add a triple loop to it..." This could be really interesting.
Somehow, I believe a driver written directly in binary (without even assembly source) would be easy to reimplement from scratch in C. Because it'd be so small.
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