On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 11:41 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > If you truly want the policy to be robust, it's important to avoid the > fallacy that programs can be discretely separated from other > interpretations of digital information.
That's not a fallacy, it's a difference of opinion. It's perfectly possible to talk about digital works in terms of what their function is, what freedoms you might need for those functions, and whether or not a work is free for a certain function. Without the function it's pretty meaningless. You can't point at a random binary, without knowing its function but knowing its license, and call it either "free" or "not free". Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
