Jeff King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 02:35:01AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> So say we have two drivers for a piece of hardware. One is written >> without comments. One was originally commented, but the comments have >> been removed. Both provide the same amount of information about how they >> work. Both are released under the same license. Both provide exactly the >> same freedoms to our users. >> >> How is one of these free and the other non-free? > > Let's say I write a program in C code and compile it to assembly > language, which I distribute. Somebody else writes an equivalent program > directly in assembly language and distributes it. The distributed > products contain the same amount of information about how they work. > > How is one of these free and the other non-free?
Machine generated assembly is, in general, significantly less modifiable than hand-written assembly. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
