[MPlayer-users] Illegal binaries...

[BlackRider]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:18:34 +0200 (EET) lanzz at lanzz.org wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html &
>  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html if you still have questions or problems]
> 
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Alex Kloss wrote:
> 
> > > you mean binary packages would be illegal? sounds good ;)
> > Binary packages doesn't contain speech (like comments, strings, etc...). As 
> > such, their freedom isn't covered by the freedom of speech. Violating the 
> > Digital Millenium Copyright Act, a binary would be illegal.
> 
> it has been argued that binary is just another form of source - just as source
> is a recipe that has to be used with a compiler, the binary is a recipe that
> has to be used with hardware :)

yeah, source and binaries are just an information. Only one difference between source and binaries is that source can be read easier by human. So if source is legal than even binaries are legal but as has been said it's illegal to use it.
BR

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