On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Bart Schaefer said:
>                                                On a guess, I'd say that
> it all comes back to the GPL's use of "work" as a noun without defining
> it.  "The work" of a program could be construed to include its algorithms.

IANAL, but `the work' in copyright law has a very clear meaning; it's
the thing that's covered by the license. It's short for something like
`the creative work'.

(Bear in mind that this was meant to cover works of art, books, and so
on; `work' makes a lot more sense in that context.)

-- 
`Unless they've moved it since I last checked, travelling between
 England and America does not involve crossing the equator.'
   --- pir

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