Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@debian.org> writes:
> Let's say I take a photo of myself to include in an app so that users > can appreciate what I look like. What is the "preferred form of > modification"? If it's 15 years later and I no longer look the same, > would I edit the photo with free software to make it look like me or > would I just take another photo? Or, another example that I can imagine plausibly arising in practice: suppose a terrabyte of raw data was collected from a scientific experiment or simulation in order to produce (among other things) a plot in the form of a 100 KB image that it is useful to distribute in documentation that goes along with some DFSG-free code. Clearly the "preferred form of modification" is the raw data, together with the code that processed it, but it seems unpractical to expect the maintainer to go through a laborious process that perhaps even requires highly specialized expertise in order to distribute the raw data and reassemble the plot from it. -- Gard