Hyman Rosen wrote: > > Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > WOW, "an illegal, infringing copy of the GPL", WOW. I gather that in the > > GNU Land the following representation of the GPL-3.0.txt is also "an > > illegal, infringing copy of the GPL"... > > > > 0000000000: 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 ¦ 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 > > Sure. > > > And storing the GPL-3.0.txt on a disk with encryption likewise results > > in "an illegal, infringing copy of the GPL", correct? > > Yes. > > You seem incredulous. Can you explain why you think these are > not infringing copies? You don't hold the copyright to the GPL. > Who has given you permission to copy it in those forms?
It's the same expression (as in literary work) copied/reproduced verbatim you idiot. See the GPL for permission regarding its reproduction (i.e. fixation of its expression/work in "copies" which has nothing to do with the forms of encoding, etc.). See also 17 USC 101, silly. BTW, encryption aside for a moment, can emacs do hex views on txt files? regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
