On 2/5/2010 5:36 AM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
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From you, never. To "modify" a work means to change its form in some way. A "verbatim" copy of a work preserves its exact words. Converting an ASCII text document to EBCDIC results in a modified document which is a verbatim copy of the original. The GPL speaks of verbatim copies of program sources. Source code is human-readable (by definition within the GPL; it is the preferred form for making changes to it) and therefore the concept of "verbatim" copy has significance. The source may be copied as ASCII, EBCDIC, compressed, compressed within an archive, and so forth while still being verbatim. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
