[Gllug] Hypothetical GPL question

[David Damerell]

On Thursday, 1 Nov 2001, Paul Brazier wrote:
>What if you deliberately wanted to be awkward ;), had a good memory of
>the hex representation of machine code (or could refer to a book), and
>wrote a small program directly into the hex editor? In that case the hex
>editor *would* be the preferred method for making modifications, because
>the whole point of the exercise would be to be intentionally
>obstreporous (is this the right word?) in writing a program that comes
>as close as possible to the boundary condition of the GPL without
>actually crossing it.

Of course, you could do this - and, not least because no more useful
form had ever existed, that would be the preferred form for making
modifications - but if your program was truly useful, someone could
always disassemble it and reproduce it in some better form for making
modifications.

-- 
David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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