On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Brian,
>
>> A sage worksheet is no more a derived work of Sage than a jpeg would
>> be a derived work of Photoshop/GIMP or a .doc file would be a derived
>> work of MS Office or OpenOffice.
>
> I disagree.  A jpeg or .doc file is not source code in any sense of
> the word, thus the GPL is completely irrelevant (I think we agree on
> that).

Would you say the same of bitmaps?

"Piet is an esoteric programming language designed by David
Morgan-Mar, whose programs are bitmaps that look like abstract art.
Piet was named after the Dutch painter Piet Mondriaan."

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_(programming_language)

:-)

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